Syntactic Chnage

Question 1

Introduction

Changes from OE to ME

Recent changes

Answer 1

• Unavoidable
• Unpredictable

Happens due to
•lan being transmitted from gen to gen 
•articulatory simplification 
• pronunciation of spelling 
• language contact colonization, migration invasion 
• change in speaker needs
• desire to express identity 

Robert h murray 
•Word order change 
Svo to sov
• inversion 
OE applied to all verbs speak they the truth
ME only to auxiliaries

Glenderen (2016)
OE - omission of subject pronouns
ME -subject pronoun is obligatory

OE- auxiliaries were not much used
ME- many auxiliaries are used

OE - no articles only demonstratives
ME both are used

OE- ne was places before auxiliaries
Negative contractions ne +habb n’abb
Double negations

OE- synthetic grammatical relations are shown through changes in inflection
ME - analytical lan shown through changes in word order.

Recent changes
Placement of frequency adverb before the auxiliary
I never have gone there

S genitive used for non human nouns
The book’s cover

Changes in comparative form
More polite, politer

Existence of singular ‘they’
Everybody came in their car

Like, sameas, immediately being used as conjunctions

Zero copula