
Historically speaking, the establishment of the English language has three gradual stages. The first stage is the old English period which was from (450-1150). This period is famous for its wide inflections because there are preservations of the endings of the nouns, verbs, adjectives. The second stage was the Middle English period dated from (1150-1500). This period is famous for its levelled inflections. Inflictions started to break down at the end of the old English period. The last stage was the early modern English period which was the language since 1500. Here we can come to see that the large numbers of inflections had disappeared completely. This period can be called the period of lost inflections. Through out these three stages there have been many influences concerning the different aspects of language. We will precisely concentrate on the noun phrase in all the three periods and on the influences as well in the three periods. We will be discussing these influences in detail and a good amount of the historical background will also be presented.
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