Very nice! And now you gave me a paper topic idea for the next time I teach my Middle English class. Yay!
Oh, and in ME the dative and accusative of me/him/them, etc., had collapsed, just like in ModE. Some very early ME still shows the OE forms of the accusative -- hine, for example -- but I think it pretty much disappears by the 13th century and certainly in late ME.
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Date: 2008-03-12 03:55 pm (UTC)Oh, and in ME the dative and accusative of me/him/them, etc., had collapsed, just like in ModE. Some very early ME still shows the OE forms of the accusative -- hine, for example -- but I think it pretty much disappears by the 13th century and certainly in late ME.