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EME period
1500-1700
LME period
1900-2000
PDE period
2000-
Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary
1755
Mulcaster’s Elementarie (grammar)
1582
Lowth’s grammar
1762
conduct literature
literature that attempts to educate the reader on social norms and ideals
optative
mood expressing wish or ‘if only’
dummy auxiliary
verb performing grammatical function with no meaning
appended
added
negator
a word expressing negation (not)
predicator
the verbal element of a sentence
proclitic
word with so little emphasis that it is added to the following word
‘affective’ use
to create a feeling/ emotion
archaic
old-fashioned
obsolete
no longer in use
subordination
the use of subordinate clauses
random capitalisation
capitalising words other than proper nouns
standardisation
the process whereby the written form was made uniform
lexicon
the active vocabulary of a language
french influence
Norman invasion 1066
Christianity
7th century
Caxton's printing press
1476
Great Vowel Shift
15th century
end of ‘thou’
17th century
2nd person ‘ye’ disappeared
late 17th century
silent appended final -e
Mulcaster 1582
King James Bible (English)
1610
Education Act
1870
BBC formed
1922
ModE period
1700-1900
unmarked adjective flat form
adjective root with no adverb inflection
