Similarities of adjectives in Old English and Proto-Indo-European. The Old English affixation for adjectives. The essence of "suppletive" in linguistics. Essential materials about the Old English affixation for adjectives. Strong and weak adjectives.
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«The Adjective in Old English» Contest structure Introduction Chapter 1. Adjectives in Proto-Indo-European 1.1 Similarities of adjectives in Old English and Proto-Indo-European Chapter 2. Declension of adjectives 2.1 Strong adjectives 2.2 Weak adjectives 2.3 Degrees of comparison Chapter 3. The adjectives’ forming 3.1 The Old English affixation for adjectives The Conclusion The Bibliography adjectives english linguistics Introduction The grammar of Old English is quite different from that of Modern English, predominantly by being much more inflected. As an old Germanic language, themorphological system of Old English is similar to that of the hypothetical Proto-Germanic reconstruction, retaining many of the inflections thought to have been common in Proto-Indo-European and also including characteristically Germanic constructions such as the umlaut. Among living languages, Old English morphology most closely resembles that of modern Icelandic, which is among the most conservative of the Germanic languages; to