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It has already been shown in relation to art and science
and scriptural exegesis how the Middle Ages had tended
steadily towards visual stress. It is now time to mention the
gradual shift in medieval language, preparatory to the leap
towards visual fixity represented by print.
In general, then, in respect to the expression of the
subject and object relations, the development in English has
been away from inflectional devices which made it
grammatically possible for subjects and objects to stand in
any position among the words of a sentence, to the use of
grammatically functioning fixed word order patterns which
made the position before the verb “subject” territory and
the position after the verb, “object” territory. (87)
Inflection is natural to the oral or auditory culture, for it is