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Comparative analysis! - Coggle Diagram

- - - - E.g. in the OE þwoh hys handa ('washed his hands'), both the pronoun hys and the noun handa are inflected for genitive case
        
        Compare this to EME washed his hands, where the pronoun his carries genitive case, but the noun does not
  - - - E.g. EME: Pilate said unto them (dative) vs. OE: cwæð Pilatus to heom
        
        NB: OE alse uses to, but the pronoun is also inflected for case
      - Hawai'i pidgin is further analytic and omits the preposition 'to', instead using the ditransitive verb "tell": Pilate tell um
- - - - E.g. Pilate tell um; Pilate know; he take... an wash
- - - - E.g. HC: wat I goin do: here, go has changed from a verb of motion to a future marker
    - - E.g. EME: what shall I doe
    - - E.g. I goin do (future); he wen do (past); da people stay bus up da place awready (present continuous/progressive)
      - This reflects the generally more analytic structure of creoles, using separate grammatical words to mark tense, whereas English has synthetic inflection (e.g. -ed, -ing)
- - - - Word initial h- is in a phonologically weak position and so is often dropped, especially in speech; his becomes conventionalised and later standardised in the orthography