Kovács, Éva (2024) On the Diachronic Development of the Syntax of Clauses in the English Language. EGER JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 24. pp. 3-22. ISSN 1786-5638 (print); 2060-9159 (online)
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Abstract
The English language has gone through significant changes from Old English (450–1150) through Middle English (c. 1150–1500) and Early Modern English (1500-1750) to Modern English (1750–present) by becoming an analytic language from a synthetic language rich in inflections. Instead of inflections Present-Day English makes intensive use of prepositions and auxiliary verbs and depends upon word order to indicate syntactic relations in a sentence. The present paper discusses how English advanced from the free word order of Old English to the relatively fixed word order that is used in Present-Day English by touching upon noun declension, inversion and fronting, quoting examples from literature and popular culture.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Old English, Middle English, Present-Day English, word order, inflection, inversion, fronting |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PE English / anglisztika |
| Depositing User: | Tibor Gál |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2025 12:20 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2025 12:20 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/221440 |
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