Introduction to the History of the English language
Historical Linguistics
Which is the science that studies how language change and relate to each other thorughout history?
43 AD
When did the Romans invade England?
Battle of Hastings
Which battles did the Normans win, which derived in their conquest of the British Isles?
from the 16th to the 18th century
How long did British colonialism last?
lingua franca
What is a language used to communicate when the speakers speak different languages?
Indo-European
Which is the name of the language family to which English belong?
Celts
Who where the first inhabitants of the British Isles?
feudalism
Which is the social system that Normans inserted in Britain?
Increase of foreign borrowings
What is the main change in the language that the Reinassance imply?
Present-Day English
How do we call the English that we speak nowadays?
the real story of the history of the English language
What is the name of the story that makes reference to the history of The English language taking into account its varieties?
Southern Britain
Which is the part of th eBritish Isles called Britannia during Roman times?
Latin
Which was the laguage of religion and administration at that time?
Latin, Greek and French
From which languages did the main borrowings of the Early Modern English period come?
narrowing
Which is the process by which the meaning of certain words became more specific during this period?
pater
which is the Latin term for the English word "father"?
Englisc
How did the Angles called English?
SVO
Which syntactic word order was fixed in English at that time?
The Globe
What is the name of the theatre where Shakespeare plays took and still take place?
Laugh out loud
What does LOL stand for?
Germanic branch
What is the branch of languages that English belong to?
8th century
When did the Vikings invade England?
raising of vowel sounds
Which changes in pronunciation did the Great Vowel Shift imply?
"love is blind"
Give an example of an idiomatic expression introduced by Shakespeare
holiday
An example of a word that suffered the process of broadening during that period of time.