Diachrone Inflection - An Outline of the Development of the Inflectional System from Old English to Modern English

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: 1 University of Innsbruck (Department of English) course: English Word Formation language: English abstract: Diachrone analyses of a language analyze the state of a language at different periods of time or its development throughout time. Today English is a language that is almost uninflected but this has not always been the case. The Old English language had many inflectional distinction...See More