INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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Across
  1. 2. The dominant role of English in global communication
  2. 5. Famous playwright in Early Modern English
  3. 7. The primary source of loanwords during the Early Modern English period
  4. 9. The common term for the stage of English that began roughly in 1500 and continues today
  5. 10. Grammatical feature of nouns and adjectives largely lost after the Old English period
  6. 13. Alliterative epic poem considered the greatest single work surviving from the Old English period
  7. 14. Language family that includes English, German, and Latin
  8. 15. Language of the new ruling class, heavily influencing Middle English vocabulary
  9. 16. The period of English after the Norman Conquest, roughly 1066 to 1476
  10. 17. The Norse raiders who settled in the Danelaw and enriched the core vocabulary of English
  11. 18. Technology introduced by Caxton in 1476 that helped standardize spelling
Down
  1. 1. The language spoken by the invading tribes (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) that formed the basis of English
  2. 3. A major change in vowel pronunciation that occurred during the transition from Middle to Early Modern English
  3. 4. His famous Canterbury Tales are the most celebrated work written in Middle English
  4. 6. The event of 1066 that triggered the shift from Old to Middle English
  5. 8. English word borrowed from Spanish for a rotating windstorm
  6. 11. The structure that Old English relied on heavily, but was later replaced by prepositions and word order
  7. 12. The phenomenon of English developing into different local varieties across the globe