The Adjective in Middle English

The Resourcefulness of Old English Vocabulary and the self-

explaining compounds. 3
The use of French: the attitude toward English (Normans – 1200)
The use of French: the attitude toward English (12th century) 2
The Rise of the Middle Class in England
The Pronoun in Middle English 2
The Noun in Middle English
The Method of Internal Reconstruction 4
Circumstances promoting the continued use of French until the
beginning of 13th century
The Dialects of Old English 2
The Hundred Year’s War
The Languages of the Germanic branch
French Influence on the vocabulary in Middle English
The noun in Old English
The verb in Old English
French reinforcements (13th century)
Germanic family of languages
The reaction against foreigners and the growth of national
feeling (13th century)
The Norman settlement
Knowledge of French among Middle class (end of 12th century and
13th)
The diffusion of French and English
Old English pronunciation
Origin, position and periods of English language 2
Linguistic genealogies
English and French in the 13th century
The Loss of grammatical gender
The Comparative method
Increasing ignorance of French in the 15th century
The noun and the grammatical gender in Old English
Attempts to arrest the Decline of French