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Modern English
the English language since about 1450, esp any of the standard forms developed from the S East Midland dialect of Middle English


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We analysed sentential negative contexts where Present Day English (PDE) would require an NPI, that is, where an indefinite XP was preceded by a formally negated element, either not or another negated XP.
Negative concord and the loss of the negative particle ne in Late ... by Ingham, Richard / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
He declared his "first allegiance" was to the American Dialect Society and the Present Day English section of the Modern Language Association.
In memoriam: Allen Walker Read (1906-2002) by Levitt, Jesse / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Such a state of affairs does not apply to similar constructions in Present Day English (henceforth PDE), which differ from their OE counterparts in a number of respects.
Clause structure in Old English by Pysz, Agnieszka / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
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