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The End of Agreement: How Old English Lost Its Inflectional Flags
Episode 248
Published 12 hours ago
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Explore why Old English’s complex agreement system faded, the role of Scandinavian contact and phonological erosion, and how this shift gave rise to modern English’s analytic syntax. Hear how scholars traced the process and what it tells us about language change.
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