Types of change in the transformation of English

 

Look at the versions of the Lord’s Prayer given in (1)–(4) in File 13.1 OR the excerpt of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde given in (7) in the same file. Identify at least one of each of the following types of change in the transformation of English between Old English and Modern English: sound change, morphological change, syntactic change, semantic change.
a. Which text did you choose–the Lord’s Prayer or Troilus and Criseyde?
b. Sound change:
c. Morphological change:
d. Syntactic change:
e. Semantic change:

 

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