The Middle English

The Middle English

MIDDLE ENGLISH CHANGES IN SPELLING

Phonetic changes in ME and Early New English

Spelling innovations in ME.

Consonant changes from OE to NE.

Peculiarities of ME spelling.

THE PRONOUN AND ADJECTIVE IN ME

The pronoun:

-Personal Pronouns

-Possessive Pronouns

The adjective

Decay of Declensions and Grammatical Categories

MIDDLE ENGLISH GRAMMAR

Evolution of the grammatical system

The synthetic forms of the ME, Early NE periods

The analytical way of form-building

THE NOUN IN EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH

Decay of Noun Declensions in Early Middle English.

Simplification of noun morphology

Simplification of noun morphology

THE VERB IN MIDDLE ENGLISH GRAMMAR

General cgaracteristics.

The Infinitive and the Participle

Strong Verbs

Weak verbs

New Grammatical Forms and Categories of the Verb