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2. Old English grammar - Wikipedia

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   The grammar of Old English differs greatly from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected.As a Germanic language, Old English has a morphological system similar to that of the Proto-Germanic reconstruction, retaining many of the inflections thought to have been common in Proto-Indo-European and also including constructions characteristic of the Germanic daughter languages such as ...

3. Old English - Wikipedia

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   Like other old Germanic languages, it is very different from Modern English and Modern Scots, and largely incomprehensible for Modern English or Modern Scots speakers without study. [3] Within Old English grammar nouns, adjectives, pronouns and verbs have many inflectional endings and forms, and word order is much freer. [2]

4. Old English subjunctive - Wikipedia

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   The following are examples: "I wish that I were wiser", "I move that the knight be deposed" or "The king commanded that the knight go on a quest". See also. English subjunctive; Bibliography. Hasenfratz, Robert and Jambeck, Thomas. Reading Old English. West Virginia, USA, West Virginian Press, 2005.

5. Metathesis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   The Old English þrēo "three" formed þridda "thrid" and þrēotene "thriteen". These underwent metathesis to forms which became Modern English third and thirteen. The Old English verb wyrċan "to work" had the passive participle ġeworht "worked". This underwent metathesis to wroht, which became Modern English wrought. The Old English þyrl ...

6. Historical linguistics - Wikipedia

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   For example, a Germanic strong verb (e.g. English sing ↔ sang ↔ sung) is irregular when it is viewed synchronically: the native speaker's brain processes them as learned forms, but the derived forms of regular verbs are processed quite differently, by the application of productive rules (for example, adding -ed to the basic form of a verb ...

7. V2 word order - Wikipedia

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   Thus Old English is classified, to some extent, as an SOV language. However, example a represents a number of Old English clauses with object following a non-finite verb form, with the superficial structure verb-subject-verb object. A more substantial number of clauses contain a single finite verb form followed by an object, superficially verb ...