Content. Introduction chapter. I. The Middle English and the Modern English Periods

THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND SECONDARY SPECIAL EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
SAMARKAND STATE INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

COURSE WORK

THEME: Evolution of English grammatical system 11-18 centuries.
Scientific supervisor: ________________
Done by: _________________

Samarkand – 2023

Content.
Introduction……………………………………………………………..
CHAPTER.I. The Middle English and the Modern English Periods
1.1. Development of the Classical Middle English………………………
1.2. Spelling Changes in Middle English. Rules of Reading…………….
CHAPTER.II. EVOLUTION OF THE GRAMMATICAL SYSTEM FROM THE
11TH TO 18TH C.
2.1. Evolution of the Sound System from the 11^th to the 18^th centuries…………………………………………………………………..
2.2. Evloution of the grammatical system from the 11^th to 18^th centuries…………………………………………………………………..
Conclusion………………………………………………………………..
References………………………………………………………………..

Introduction.
In the course of ME and Early NE the grammatical system of the language underwent profound alteration. Since the OE period the very grammatical type of the language has changed; from what can be defined as a synthetic or inflected language, with a well -developed morphology English has been transformed into a language of the analytical type, with analytical forms and ways of word connection prevailing over synthetic ones. This does not mean, however, that the grammatical changes were rapid or sudden; nor does it imply that all grammatical features were in a state of perpetual change. Like the development of other linguistic levels, the history of English grammar was a complex evolutionary process made up of stable and changeable constituents. Some grammatical characteristics remained absolutely or relatively stable; others were subjected to more or less extensive modification.Between the 10th and the 16th c., that is from Late OE to Early NE the ways of building up grammatical forms underwent considerable changes. In OE all the forms which can be included into morphological paradigms were synthetic. In ME and Early NE, grammatical forms could also be built in the analytical way, with the help of auxiliary words. The proportion of synthetic forms in the language has become very small, for in the meantime many of the old synthetic forms have been lost and no new synthetic forms have developed.
In the synthetic forms of the ME and Early NE periods, few as those forms were, the means of form building were the same as before: inflections, sound interchanges and suppletion; only prefixation, namely the prefix ȝe-, which was commonly used in OE to mark Participle II, went out of use in Late ME (instances of Participle II with the prefix y- (from OE ȝe-) are still found in Chaucer's time (see Line 8 of the extract from the CANTERBURY TALES).