
Episode 22: Early Germanic Grammar
The History of English Podcast
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Evolution of Verb Tenses in Language
This chapter explores how different languages, such as English and Chinese, express tense and sentence structure. It discusses the use of inflections in English verbs and how the Germanic language simplified verb forms. It also highlights the irregularity of verbs in the original Indo-European language and its influence on Germanic verb development.
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