Noun
Name noun cases in Old English
Nom, Gen, Dat, Acc
Name Old English categories
gender, number, case, declension, degrees of com
OE weak verbs form the past tense by ...
dental suffix
Definite article appeared in ME from
a numeral an
An irregular paradigm is one in which the derived forms of a word cannot be deduced by simple rules from the base form
suppletion
Name OE noun categories:
gender, number, case, and declension
What grammatical means of forming degrees of comparison existed in Old English?
suffixation, vowel gradation and suppletive
... verbs are verbs which have a present tense in the form of an ablaut and a past tense with a dental suffix.
preterite-present
What categories do Middle English nouns possess?
case and number
the changing of the form of a word to indicate gender, number, case etc
declension
The Common case in ME did not include ...
Genetive
What grammatical means of forming degrees of comparison existed in Middle English?
suppletive, suffixation, periphrastic
the way a verb changes to show person, number, tense, and mood
conjugation
hwelċ/hwilċ/hwylċ are ... pronouns
indefinite
... is an amalgam of all cases that disappeared in OE compared to IE
Dative
Give examples of mutated plurals survived from OE
foot-feet
Which adjectival category(ies) disappeared in Middle English?
gender and case
Which verbal category(ies) appeared in Middle English?
voice and aspect
The category of number for this part of speech was represented by
singular, dual, plural
Which part of speech was not mentioned as common Germanic?
article
The a-stem, the o-stem, the u-stem and the i-stem nouns belong to
a strong declension
The presence or absence of a determiner before an adjective impacted the category of ...
declension
How many forms of strong verbs are there in Middle English?
4
Name the case change(s) of personal pronouns
Acc and Dat merged, and Gen disappeared
A spontaneous change of a root vowel is IE languages is called ...
Ablaut