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These were days of forcible levelings: and my lord who had contravened old Noll's laws against swearing and gambling, fared not one whit better than the tramp who had purloined a leg of mutton from an eating-house.
At the very beginning of the Middle English period, therefore, we find that the old paradigm has yielded to a more regular one: The starred forms are the old nucleus around which the new paradigm is built. The unstarred forms are not genealogical kin of their formal prototypes. They are analogical replacements. The history of the English language teems with such levelings or extensions.
The distinction between the nominative and accusative was nibbled away by phonetic processes and morphological levelings until only certain pronouns retained distinctive subjective and objective forms. At present it is more seriously undermined than most of us realize. The possessive has little vitality except in the pronoun and in animate nouns.
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