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Lexical Changes in the English Language between the Middle English Period and the Early Modern English Period

This thesis is focused on the prominent lexical changes in the Middle English and Early Modern English periods. It provides historical backgrounds for both periods as they are important and connected to language changes. Loanwords from French and Latin are presented for both periods ; however, the Early Modern English period has a list of borrowings from other languages. These borrowings are listed and divided to a fitting semantic field according to their word class. By using the gathered data, conclusions of the scope of influence of loanwords on English are made. Every word-formation process is described and analysed structurally and some of new words coming from the mentioned periods are listed. By researching the mentioned lexical changes in the given periods, some conclusions on their importance for Contemporary English are made.

lexical changes, English language, the Middle English period, the Early Modern English, lexical borrowing, derivation

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