DBWI: Germanic and Romance English?

The English language, like Romanian, Romansh, Ottoman Turkish, and Siculo-Arabic, is known for its extremely wide and vocabulary of differing etymologies, and analytical non-inflected grammar, due to England's history of being conquered many times, as well as England conquering many other countries in turn, and receiving cultural, legal, and linguistic influence in many different directions.

Obviously, in any timeline the English Channel would assist invasion, and like the North Sea would be more of a highway than the barrier. But let's say we handwaved that away and somehow made England isolated from the European and Avalonian continents.

What if none of the conquests happened except for the Norman conquest? After that, a Norman-descended England would maybe invade its neighbors (such as France and Frisia), but never conquer them. Middle English would settle on a Germanic substrate and Norman-French superstrate. Greek and Latin would filter in later. Early Modern English would then develop directly from Middle English. We could also prevent the Danish and Wendish settlements that occurred before the Norman conquest but this is not required.

What do you predict that English would look like if this had happened? And what would the role of England have been, would it still become a regional great power without being so constantly militarized and connected to continental realms?

(As you can see, I wrote this in a fake version of English with no Slavic, Celtic, or Altaic words.)
 
Hmm. Vocabulary and morphology, that is grammar, are two distnct things. English may have acquired a vast store of different words from the many invasions of England, but they had remarkably little effect on its grammar. The evidence is that the trend of Old English was to weaken and lose its inflections, and I think the change to an analytical, non-inflected grammar would have happened anyway. There is a theory that the Danish invasion and settlement was the most inflential here, since the Danes spoke a language with a vocabulary and structure quite close to Old English, but with a different set of inflexions. Contact between the two hastened the already weakened English inflexions on their way, as it were.

My guess is that if the invasions of England had stopped/been stopped after the Normans, English today would be quite similar to the Scandinavian languages, plus a few loans from French. No doubt, following the trend of Old English, much of the intellectual influence from Latin would be by way of loan-translations, as happens in German. They might say something like 'aynbite' instead of 'remorse' for example.
 
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