History of the English language

Name the factors that influenced the formation of a unified national English. Why did dialects go by the wayside?

Speak on the greatest events that stand out clearly among the highlights in the history of the English language? Name at least 3 events.

This process was launched and backed up by the following tendencies and events:
1. The power became highly centralized after the years of discord and the Civil War of Roses. After Henry the VII Tudor established absolute monarchy, London became a bureaucratic and administrative center, where the documents and bills were issued.
2. Latin was ousted from many spheres under Henry the VIII who split up with the Catholic Church.
3. The invention of printing and subsequent spread of literacy.
4. Oxford and Cambridge, two basic centres of education, were very close to London and also propagated London dialect.
5. Popularity of great literary works by Chaucer, who deliberately created in English.

42. 
    What do you know about Old English major dialects?
    

Old English had four main dialects, associated with particular Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Mercian, Northumbrian, Kentish and West Saxon.

43. 
    The cases Old English nouns were inflected to indicate nominative, accusative, genitive, dative
    
44. 
    Speak on ablaut and umlaut, the most important features of Germanic vowels. Give some examples
    

ablaut. The process of inflecting a verb by changing its vowel sing-sang-sung.
umlaut. The process of shifting the pronunciation of a vowel toward the front of the mouth. In German, vowels that undergo umlaut {or that underwent it in earlier hi‘-toncal periods) are indicated by two dots; a. 6. U. verb. The partof-speech categorv comprising words thai typically refer to ^n action or
Ablaut - Free stress became recessive, and precise accent rules became dominant, with the first root syllable carrying the stress.
Umlaut - Umlauting, a process of modifying vowel sounds, took place extensively in formation of paradigmatic forms (man - men; f) and word building.

45. 
    What do you know about rhotacism? Can you support your definition by examples?
    

Rhotacism may refer to several phenomena related to the usage of the consonant r (whether as an alveolar tap, alveolar trill, or the rarer uvular trill).