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The Middle English
Normans arrived in the British Isles in 1066. In this period they introduced neary 900 French words(e.g. confession, honest and advance).
At that time in this area there were a lot of different languages: French was used by arisocracy and nobles, English was the language spoken by the most of the population and Latin was the language of the Church(and this is clear if we think about many words of Latin origin like diocese, psalm and requiem).In addition to this there were other languages like Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic and Scandivian.
In the late Middle English there was the introduction of the printing press by William Caxton:the main consequence of this new technology was the strandardisation of the written language. The classical Middle English variety was the one used by Chaucher in the 14th century.
In the Middle English there was a language reduction:names and adjectives didn'have inflections any longer, while the distinction between strong and weak adjective was over. The development of future time, absent in Old English, was just began. In the Old English the verbs sculand(should) and willan(will) were used to express necessity, while in Middle English there was the introduction of a new kind of future. The present progressive started to be used sporadically, but only in Modern English it will be developed.
Pronouns didn't change a lot, there was only the introduction of the third person singular shoe/she.
The word order SVO was fixed but there were some exceptions; for expressing wishes, desires and commendments it was used the order VS....
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