Middle English History
He reportedly took an arrow to the eye in his attempt to retain the English crown.
Who is Harold Godwinson?
Old English had these two categories of verbs.
What are strong and weak?
This case indicated the manner in which an action was completed.
What is instrumental?
Five Middle English monophthongs were raised and two were diphthongized over a very long period of time now known as this.
What is the Great Vowel Shift?
Two-syllable verbs in Modern English are stressed on this syllable.
What is the second syllable?
More English speakers than French speakers survived this event, for which rats were utimately responsible!
What is the Bubonic Plague?
This phenomenon produced irregular plurals such as "feet."
What is vowel mutuaton?
The letter "c" was pronounced /k/ in these two phonetic environments.
What are in front of a consonant and beside a back vowel?
The pronunciation of "gh" became these two allophones depending on the phonetic environment in which it occurred.
What are 0 (nothing) and /f/?
When added to words, this type of bound morpheme does not change the part of speech of the word.
What is an inflectional affix?
Mathilda and Stephen were engaged in a power struggle until it was decided that this son of Mathilda would take the English crown.
Who is Henry II?
With the loss of inflections, these two forms for nouns remained in English.
What are the form without an "s" for the singular and the form with an "s" for the plural and possessive.
Adjectives were declined according to these four grammatical elements.
What are case, number, gender and definiteness?
The start of the use of "you" to show respect to one's interlocuter eventually led to this.
What is the loss of the second person singular forms "thou/thee/thy/thine"?
In English, a prepositional phrase is always composed of these two elements.
What are a preposition and a noun phrase?
The Magna Carta was created during the reign of this King who lost Normandy, one of the events that led to the decline of the French language in England.
Who is King John?
These two phenomena replaced the information carried in the inflections present in Old English.
What are word order and prepositions?
The definite article "the" comes from this form in Old English. Be specific.
What is the masculine singular nominative demonstrative "se"?
These constructions that use words such as "myself" and "yourself" were much more common in Early Modern English than they are now.
What are reflexive verbs?
This is the description of this sound: /f/
What is a voiceless labiodental fricative?
He promoted the translation of the Bible into English and was the head of a group known as the Lollards.
Who is John Wycliffe?
Old English was this type of language in which inflections that carry meaning are added to various parts of speech.
What is synthetic?
Gradation or ablaut occurred very often in this part of speech in Old English.
What are (strong) verbs?
Before "mine" became solely a possessive pronoun (nominal possessive), it was used in front of these three phonetic environments.
What are a vowel, "h" or a pause?
This is the description of this sound: /n/
What is a voiced alveolar nasal?