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    The document discusses several key aspects of Old English, including: 1. Old English had different dialects including Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon, and Kentish. Nouns in Old English did not have grammatical gender based on sex. 2. Old English had a twofold adjective declension and a fully inflected definite article. The verb distinguished only past and present tense and lacked passive forms. 3. Old English utilized compound words formed by linking words together to create new meanings, and had many productive prefixes. Old English syntax was more inflected than Modern English.

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    The document discusses several key aspects of Old English, including: 1. Old English had different dialects including Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon, and Kentish. Nouns in Old English did not have grammatical gender based on sex. 2. Old English had a twofold adjective declension and a fully inflected definite article. The verb distinguished only past and present tense and lacked passive forms. 3. Old English utilized compound words formed by linking words together to create new meanings, and had many productive prefixes. Old English syntax was more inflected than Modern English.

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    The document discusses several key aspects of Old English, including: 1. Old English had different dialects including Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon, and Kentish. Nouns in Old English did not have grammatical gender based on sex. 2. Old English had a twofold adjective declension and a fully inflected definite article. The verb distinguished only past and present tense and lacked passive forms. 3. Old English utilized compound words formed by linking words together to create new meanings, and had many productive prefixes. Old English syntax was more inflected than Modern English.

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    The document discusses several key aspects of Old English, including: 1. Old English had different dialects including Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon, and Kentish. Nouns in Old English did not have grammatical gender based on sex. 2. Old English had a twofold adjective declension and a fully inflected definite article. The verb distinguished only past and present tense and lacked passive forms. 3. Old English utilized compound words formed by linking words together to create new meanings, and had many productive prefixes. Old English syntax was more inflected than Modern English.

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    María Fernanda Salazar Santacruz 1925793

    1. Old English
    They had different dialects of Old English
     Northumbrian
     Mercian
     West Saxon
     Kentish
    Some characteristics of Old English is
     The pronunciation of Old English word that commonly differs from that of their
    modern equivalents
     Difference of spelling
     The vocabulary of Old English is almost purely Germanic
     The Old English is a synthetic language.

    -Grammatical Gender-
    The gender of Old English nouns is not dependent upon considerations of sex. Although
    nouns designating males are often masculine and those indicating females feminine, those
    indicating neuter objects aren’t necessarily neuter.

    -The adjective-
    An important feature of the Germanic languages is the development of a twofold
    declension, and the other, the weak declension, used when the noun is preceded by such a
    word.

    -The definite article-


    Old English possessed a fully inflected definite article

    -The verb-
    Old English distinguished only two simple tenses by inflection, a present and a past, and,
    except for one word, it had no inflectional forms for the passive as in Latin or Greek. It
    recognized the indicative, subjunctive, and imperative moods and had the usual two
    numbers and three persons.

    -Self-explaining compounds-
    María Fernanda Salazar Santacruz 1925793

    A compound word is two or more words linked together to produce a word with a new
    meaning
    There are about a dozen prefixes that occur with great frequency. With the help of such as
    be-, for-, fore, ge-, mis-, of-, ofer-, on-, un-, under-, and whip-, Old English could make out
    of a simple verb like settan (to set) new verbs like besettan ´appoint´, forsettan ´place
    before´, gesettan ´people´, ´garrison´, ofsettan ´afflict´.
    -Old English Syntax-
    More inflected. Nouns, pronouns, adjectives and determiners were fully inflected, with four
    grammatical cases, and a vestigial instrumental, two grammatical numerbs and three
    grammatical genders.
     Hypotactic: The high proportion of long sentences with subordination
     Paratactic: Shorter sentences and a higher proportion of principal clauses
    -Old English literature-
    Old English literature refers to poetry and prose written in Old English in medieval
    England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period
    often termed Anglo-Saxon England
    Sermons and saints´ lives; biblical translation; translated Latin works of the early Church
    Fathers; chronicles and narrative history works; laws, wills and other legal works; practical
    works on grammar, medicine, and geography; and poetry.

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