last cramming

• Before the English language (before 600 AD) 

  • Indo-European Dialects 
  • West Germanic and Celtic
• Old English (600 AD - 1100 AD) 

  • Anglo-Saxon English: synthetic language, agglutinative tendencies 
• Middle English (1100 AD - 1500 AD) 

  • Anglo-Norman French ( borrowed words from Latin ) 
  • Germanic at the core
  • Extensive Roman vocabulary 
  • disappearance of OE’s structural complexity 
• Early Modern English (1500 AD - 1700 AD) 

  • morphology: analytic 
  • phonetics: great vowel shift 
  • syntax: SVO 
  • vocabulary: borrowing Latin and Greek long words