Periods
How many periods are there in the English language?
3 (4 with pre-English)
Battle of Hastings
1066
Old English was according to the typological classification
a synthetic language
Beowulf belongs to the .. period
Old English
How many dialects were there in OE?
4
Give 3 options of Old English beginning
410 AD
449 AD
5th century
Introduction of Christianity
597
Genetic classification of the English language
IE language family - Germanic subdivision - West Germanic group
'The Canterbury Tales' belongs to the .. period
Middle English
How many dialects were there in ME?
5
What events can be named as the beginning of Early Modern English?
1476 introduction of the printing
1485 Tudor dynasty
Roman conquest of Britain
43 AD
Forming of different forms from different roots is
suppletion
John Milton wrote in (period)
EME
The dialect of Frank's Casket?
Which period does this date mark - 1380?
Early Middle English - Late Middle English
1455 – 1487: event?
Wars of the Roses
What divisions of IE language family co-exist/ed on the British Isles?
Germanic, Italic, Celtic
Give years of Shakespeare's plays
1589(90) - 1613(14)
The most important dialect of ME
East Midland
According to whose idea year 1776 is the end of Early Modern English?
Cambridge history of the English Language
Statute of Pleading, an Act of the Parliament of England
1362
The reduction of unstressed syllables was caused by
interaction of English, French, and Scandinavian
Name the period of William Langland
Middle English
From which dialects did the reduction of unstressed syllables start in ME?
Nothern