Front | What grammatical changes occured in ME? |
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Back | Loss of inflectional endings Loss of inflected determiners Switch from synthetic to analytic language due to fixed word order Introduction of French derivational suffixes such as '-ment', '-ous' and '-ery' Simplified pronoun system Loss of strong and weak declensions of adjectives Distinction between adverbs and adjectives with use of '-lic' |
Tags: english, middle
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