History of English:

How English Changed from a Synthetic Language (Many Suffixes)

to an Analytic Language (Fewer Suffixes), and

How English Has Become the “Lingua Franca” of the Modern World

In discussing the History of English, we must consider such terms as assimilation, dissimilation, umlaut, ablaut, Grimm's Law, Verner's law, and in the case of Old English becoming Middle English and Modern English, language typology (synthetic languages vs. analytic languages), a syllable-timed language becoming a stress-timed language, the loss of suffixes, development of final schwa, and finally development of "silent e," and the Great English vowel shift. I would like to start a discussion about how and why languages change.