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MAJOR MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES FROM OLD TO MIDDLE ENGLISH. - Coggle Diagram
MAJOR MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES FROM OLD TO MIDDLE ENGLISH.
Verbs.
The verbs reflects lesser degrees of change.
There are still strong and weak verbs.
Weak
Drinke, drank, synge, sang
Strong
hope, hopede, love, lovede
Other changes in the morphological system.
CONJUCTIONS
New subordinators were needed and developed from primarly other parts of speech.
From interrogative advers, pronouns came: when that, which that, how that and from other part of speech we get after that.
ADVERBS
These were fromed by adding primarly /e/ at the end of adjectives
Lately, the addition of the suffix -lie arrived.
Loss of inflections.
One of the major changes of Englis was the typological change from a synthatic to an analytic language.
The changes began with the fixing of stress
The inflectional information at the end of the words was removed.
We can summerize the changes across the inflectional spectrum in turn, of the noun, adjective and pronoun.
PRONOUNS
There is considerably less overlap in the pronouns than there was in the OE.
ADJECTIVES.
Adjectives lost all distinction between strong and weak declensions.
NOUNS
The distintic ending of OE were reduced to the Schwa sound.
PREPOSITIONS.
New prepositions were formed by conversations, borrowing and compounding.