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Language Change: from Old English to Modern English.
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Language Change: from Old English to Modern English. That the English language has changed momentously over the last 1000 years would appear as a given to a speaker of Modern English who reads or hears an Old English text being read for the first time. In fact, if the reader were not told that it was English, he or she might not even be able to identify it as a form of English. How has this happened? What are the factors of language change which have led to Modern English being so vastly different to Old English? Which elements of the language have these changes affected? What in fact is language change and how does it occur? These are big questions, about which indeed many books have been written. Anything like a comprehensive survey of the change from Old English to Modern English is beyond the scope of an essay...
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