Morphologica processies

СОДЕРЖАНИЕ

1. Development of morphology
2. The grammatical aspect of word-building
3. Morphemes
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Morphologica processies

The morphology of Old English looks much like Old Saxon. Among West Germanic languages, Old English seems rather progressive - it did not make a distinction between genders in nominative singular. The personal pronouns lost their -r at the end (a rather strange feature); the 3rd person of those pronouns acquired a form he (perhaps, from Old Norse).
In late Middle English, the morphology continued to differ conspicuously from that of Scots, and in much the same way as previously. The verbal conjugation still had -is as the normal suffix for all persons and numbers of the present tense: I, thou, he, we, ye, thai keipis (== keeps or keep). Weak verbs still had the suffix -it rather than -ed for both past tense and perfect passive participle: knokkit, proceidit, sugerit. The vocalism of theseendings reflects the Northern preference, already mentioned, since the front vowel i appears here in unaccented syllables. The same vowel appears in the inflectional -is for the genitive singular and for all plural endings of strong nouns: thoughtis, lufaris. The present participle active of verbs is still -and. A number of pronouns have specifically Scottish forms: quhilk, quha for which, who; thai and thir for these, etc. Numerous traits, therefore, make easy the identification of a text of Scottish provenience in the post-Chaucerian period.