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Contents
Common terms and phrases18th century 19th century adjectives adverbs ain’t American English analytic analytic language Appendix auxiliaries baet become Beowulf borrowed Britain British Celtic Chapter Chaucer consonants creoles dative dialects Dictionary discussed Early Modern English edition endings English spelling English texts English words epenthesis example facsimile Figure forms French fricative Germanic grammar grammatical words grammaticalization Grimm’s Law hath Indo-European influence instance king language Late Middle English later Latin Layamon linguistic lists loans look marker meaning Middle English Modern English period morphology nasal nouns occurs Old and Middle Old English palatalization Peterborough Chronicle phonetic pidgins plural prefix prepositions pronouns pronunciation Sanskrit Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Scandinavian Scottish English Section sentence Shakespeare shows singular sound changes speakers spoken subjunctive syntax synthetic Table tense third person thou translation Universal Grammar varieties of English velar velar nasal verbs vocabulary voiced Vowel Shift word order þæt þat Bibliographic information
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