The Four Periods of English

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Across
  1. 2. what kind of morphemes were more common in old english
  2. 5. In the Modern English period, there was standardisation of ______
  3. 7. ______ the Great defended England during the viking invasion, and unified it under one king.
  4. 8. Significant contributor to literature during the early modern english period, a poet/playwright
  5. 10. Though English became widely spoken in the british isles during the Early modern english period, the ____ languages were still used.
  6. 15. Of this language, how many words were adopted into English (a number)
  7. 17. The author of The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey _______
  8. 18. Middle English emerged after the _____ Conquest.
  9. 19. The general name for Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
Down
  1. 1. In the Modern English period, there was standardisation of ______
  2. 3. There was an ____ (increase/decrease) in levels of literacy during the Modern English period
  3. 4. Early modern English coincided with what invention?
  4. 6. old english had a ____r word order
  5. 9. what person inflection was used in old english?
  6. 11. Modern english was marked by the beginning of the _______ revolution.
  7. 12. What language was Middle English heavily influenced by?
  8. 13. The first ______ was published in 1755
  9. 14. a linguistic change, the Great ______ shift
  10. 16. England began a colonial spread in this continent
  11. 17. William ______ invented this invention.