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Middle English Flashcards

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Genres

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Peterborough Chronicle, Ancrene Wisse, Chaucer, Wife of Bath, legal documents (wills, testaments, proceedings), science, love letters

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Dialects/ standardisation

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Variation, verbs, pronouns, sounds (N/S), East Midlands, Chancery clerks, Caxton

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Lexical inventory

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French influence, administration, law/ government, church, fashion, food, science, military

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Levelling

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Less inflection, more word order

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Nouns

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Inflected (plural, possessive)

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Adjectives

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1 syllable, consonant (strong/ weak)

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Pronouns

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Number/ case/ gender

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Verbs

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Inflected (strong/ weak)

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