6. Conclusions
Development
of the syntactic system in ME and Early NE was characterized by the
following changes:
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The
sentence structure became more orderly and uniform and at the same
time more complicated due to inclusion of more extended and complex
parts.
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The
word order in a sentence was stabilized: it became fixed and direct.
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The
structure of the main word phrases – with nouns, adjectives and
verbs as head-words – was altered considerably due to decreasing
agreement between the components.
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In
Late ME and Early NE predicative constructions of different types
came to be widely used with an increasing number of verbs.
