Historical Outlines of English Accidence

adjectives adverb Ayenbite become century we find Chaucer cognate compounds connecting vowel consonants Danish dative declension feminine fourteenth century FOURTH PERIOD French gender genitive Goth Gothic Grammar Greek Grimm's Law High German indefinite infinitive inflections inflexions Keltic language later forms Latin Low German masc masculine Midland dialect modern English NEUT neuter Norman-French Northern dialect nouns numerous O.E. we find O.Fr O.H.Ger occurs Old English Old High German older oldest English Ormulum participle passive participle Past Indicative past tense PERF period we find plural prefix preposition PRES Present Indicative Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester root Sansk Sanskrit Saxon Scandinavian Second period Shakespeare silf Sing singular sometimes Southern Spenser spoken stem strong verbs Subjunctive substantives suffix syllable Teutonic ther THIRD PERIOD thirteenth and fourteenth thirteenth century thou vowel weak verbs West Midland þæt þat