Nouns
What happened with gender in ME?
Gender was lost
Name endings of superlative for most adjectives.
What number disappeared in ME?
Dual
What was syntactic role of verb in OE?
Predicate
From which language nouns for everyday objects were borrowed?
Scandinavian
What was lost in ME?
Case
What was one personal pronouns in EModE?
Tell about morphological class in OE
1. strong
2. weak
3. suppletive
4. preterite-present
Which declension appeared in ME?
Mutated plural
What is the only category remained in EModE?
Degrees of comparison
Which pronoun was a result of generalization in EModE?
Provide examples of preterite-present and anomalous verbs in ME.
How did case changed through all periods?
In OE: Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative
In ME:Nominative, Genetive
In EModE:Common, Genitive
Give characteristics to adjectives in EModE.
-modify nouns
-complement the subject
-complement the object
-can be modified by adverbs
Which case was lost during transitions from OE to ME?
Dative
What appeared in EModE?
Active and passive voice
Give examples of mutated plurals in EModE
feet, geese, men
Give an example of double superlative
The most hyghest God
Why "it" appeared in EModE?
"It" gained subject and object functions losing strong variant "hit" or "him"
What is the difference between tenses in ME and EModE?
There is no future tense in ME and for future in EModE auxiliaries "shall" and "will" are used