Simplification of English (13 dic 1155 anni – 12 dic 1450 anni)
Descrizione:
As a result of English being spoken by mostly uneducated peasants, it loses gender, as well as many conjugations and declensions.
Adjectives have been reduced to singular and plural.
Spelling has simplified greatly.
Grammatical and inflectional complexities from Old English fade away. Word order increases in importance. By late 1300's, the subject, verb, object word order has become normal.
The pronounced stress on the lexical root shifts to the first syllable.
Vowels begin to develop the unstressed "shwa".
English is mostly a spoken language, with no regulation or official status.
Aggiunto al nastro di tempo:
Data:
13 dic 1155 anni
12 dic 1450 anni
~ 295 years