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Influential factors that have been significant in the developing of the English language into the language it is today

Great Vowel Shift (c. 1400-1600)

Printing Press (late 15th century)

Renaissance (14th-17th centuries)

Colonization and Globalization (16th-20th centuries)

British Empire (17th-20th centuries)

20th-Century Development

Literary Contributions

Social

Technological

Geographical

Political

Linguistic

Cultural

References:

Algeo, J., Pyles, T. (2009). The Origins and Development of the English Language. Estados Unidos: Cengage Learning. Baugh, A., & Cable, T. (1993). A history of the English language. Routledge. Crystal, D. (2018). The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language. Cambridge university press.