History of english review questions and answers 2016
verb:
·I eom grat - "I am great"
· wihta wron ftta - "The creatures were fat").
CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF MIDDLE ENGLISH
A comparison of English texts written in the tenth or eleventh centuries with those produced in the
late twelth or early thirteenth reveals the following differences between Old and Middle English:
· phonological
· Old-English diphthongs become Middle English monophthongs, e.g. on heofonum -
> in hevene;
· new diphthongs emerge in the Middle English period, e.g. dæg -> dai, day;
· Initial [h] before consonants disappears in the Middle English period, e.g. hræven -
> raven;
· [f, v] and [s, z] , which were allophones in the Old-English period, become
phonemes;
· unstressed vowels in the inflectional endings become [@] .1.1
· morphological
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