Extra-
when did the reduction of unstressed syllables happen?
Middle English
Category of tense in OE was represented by the opposition of ...
Past and Present
Name categories of Middle English adjectives
declension, number, degrees of comparison
Old English nouns had ... cases
four
... is a type of semantic change by which the meaning of a word becomes more general or more inclusive than its earlier meaning.
Widening
Name the tribe who migrated to the British Isles in circa 800/1000 BC
Celtic tribes
OE verbs that form their forms by means of Ablaut are
strong
How many dialects were there in OE and ME?
4 & 5
In all of the Germanic languages the ... case is an amalgam of several older cases that have fallen together: _,locative, ablative, and instrumental.
Dative
... words have forms from several different roots.
suppletive
From 1337 to 1453 the English nation suffered ...
the Hundred Years' War
Which Modern English category/ies was/were NOT characteristic of Old English verbs?
voice and aspect
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was written in
West Saxon
Which pattern of word formation was the most productive in the history of the English language?
Noun+Noun
... shows the systematic relationship between consonants in Germanic languages and consonants in other Indo-European languages.
Grimm's Law
Year 1474
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye was printed in English (the first book in English)
How many classes of strong verbs were there in Old English?
seven
Which dialect/s was/were first to change from a synthetic to an analytic type?
Northern
The pronoun 'they' was borrowed from ...
Scandinavian
... is the tendency of phonetic assimilation of the root vowel to the vowel of the ending
Umlaut
Robert Cawdrey published the first English dictionary in
1604
Preterite-present verbs in OE formed their forms by means of
ablaut and dental suffix
Beowulf is an Old English … (genre)
heroic poem
Name declensions of Old English nouns
strong (vowel), weak (consonant), root declension (foot - feet)
The change of the vowel in forms ‘child - children’ is explained by
the Great Vowel Shift