Development of Grammatical Categories of Adjective
CONTENTS
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Part 1 The English adjective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Part 2 Old English adjective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Part 3 Middle English adjective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Part 4 Early Modern English adjective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
INTRODUCTION
This paper is intended to discuss about the development and the changes of the English adjectives in Old English, Middle English, and Modern English. All languages in the world develop and change. A language is developing from time to time, and from generations to generations. Speakers of a certain language cannot prevent the language they speak from developing or changing. The development and the change of a language is not only on the lexicon, but it can be on the other elements of the linguistics, and the causes of the changes are various, such as: the political, social, cultural and technological development.
There is a problem, however, of whether the development of the language can be directly observed or not. It is the genuine characteristic of a language that a language develops, and the process is for centuries. It is impossible to observe the development of a language directly since the age of man is limited. Something, which can be
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Part 1 The English adjective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Part 2 Old English adjective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Part 3 Middle English adjective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Part 4 Early Modern English adjective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
INTRODUCTION
This paper is intended to discuss about the development and the changes of the English adjectives in Old English, Middle English, and Modern English. All languages in the world develop and change. A language is developing from time to time, and from generations to generations. Speakers of a certain language cannot prevent the language they speak from developing or changing. The development and the change of a language is not only on the lexicon, but it can be on the other elements of the linguistics, and the causes of the changes are various, such as: the political, social, cultural and technological development.
There is a problem, however, of whether the development of the language can be directly observed or not. It is the genuine characteristic of a language that a language develops, and the process is for centuries. It is impossible to observe the development of a language directly since the age of man is limited. Something, which can be