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What Accounts for Middle English Dialects?A Theoretical Exploration
Problem
     In their 2000 publication, The Syntax of Early English, Fischer, van Kemenade, Koopman, and van der Wurff briefly discuss in their chapter on verb-second constraint and its loss that there were several different dialects that emerged during the evolution of Middle English (1100-1500). Rather than posit their own theory as to why this may have occurred, they instead turn to Kroch and Taylor’s 1997 work to cast some light on the situation.
     Simply put, Kroch and Taylor (as explained by

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