Pre- Presentation Outline

Here it is our pre-presentation outline:

1.Introduction to our excerpt

2. From OE to Chaucer's ME:

• General changes in grammar and morphology:
  

-palatalization, impersonal forms,use of -es genitive and y- prefix,
abundance of function words...

3. Chaucer's ME:

• From a synthetical to an analytical language: % of function and lexical words
• Word's origins: percentages and semantic fields
• Spelling inconsistencies
  

4.From Chaucer's ME to PDE:

• Phonetics:

-GVS through evidence of rhyme (Chaucer's text-PDE rhymed version)

• Lexis and Semantics:

-Religious sense : literal and metaphoric ---language as a social convention
-Loss of meanings and historical terms and archaic words.