1. Selection of the code in Old English?
2. Middle English verb system
3. Great Vowel shift
4. Grammatical differences, AmE vs. BrE
5. What are the grounds for recognizing three different periods in development of English?
6. What grounds are there for recognizing three different periods in the history of English: Old English, Middle English and Modern English?
7. Linguists and others talk freely about British English, American English, and Australian, English, etc. Are they talking about relatively homogeneous dialects of the same language? What are British, American and Australian English?
8.Old English borrowings
9.The loss of gender in English
10.The reasons why English became an official language