Aspects of the History of English

accusative adjective adverb allophones animate Aux1 Aux2 Auxi base component borrowed characterize common consonant construction count creature dative deer derived dialects dictionary early Middle English early Modern English English Grammar flour forms fourteenth century French genitive grammatical grammatical gender graphemic human inflectional interpretation language late Middle English Latin lexical items linguistic masc meaning Middle English Middle English period Midlands morphographemic negative neut nickel nominative noun NP Aux VP NP NP NP VP object occur Old English past participle periphrastic phonemic phonological phrase marker plural Prep preposition Pres pro-verb pronoun semantic change semantic features sense sentence shame shamefast singular sound speaker spelling stem strong verbs subjunctive surface structure syntactic takes venom tion transformation rules Trevisa vowel weak weak verbs word order þæt þat þis