What Happened
What is the original language and the following languages after known as? (The name that we use)
Parent/Ancestor & Daughter/Descendant
haʊs
house
Metaphor or Metonymy
Seminary - 'a place where seeds are sprouted and nurtured' > 'a school of religion'
Metaphor
/p/
voiceless bilabial stop
Classical or Nonclassical
Double points if you can also guess the origins
Algebra
Nonclassical (Arabic)
What major event happened in 1066 A. D.?
The Norman Conquest
brɪʤɪz
bridges
Homonymy or Polysemy
ring (circular band) vs. ring (phone sound)
Homonymous
/n/
voiced alveolar nasal
Classical or Nonclassical
Double points if you can also guess the origins
Bracelet
Classical (French)
What were the two major linguistic events that started ME?
The Great Vowel Shift & the printing press
daɪnəsɔr
dinosaur
Which regular allomorphic process is this?
X → ∅ / __ Z
Deletion
/i/
high front tense unrounded
Classical or Nonclassical
Double points if you can also guess the origins
Tycoon
Nonclassical (Chinese)
What was the Great Vowel Shift?
A series of changes in English long vowels over several hundred years
æmbɪɡjuɪs
ambiguous
Which word formation process?
Math
Clipping
/o/
back mid tense rounded
Classical or Nonclassical
Double points if you can also guess the origins
Exertion
Classical (Latin)
Describe the path from PIE to English. What languages were made in between.
PIE - IE - Germanic - West Germanic - OE - English
Or
PIE - IE - European - Germanic - West Germanic - Anglo Frisian - English
proʊto ɪndoʊ jʊrəpiɪn
Proto Indo European
Which irregular allomorphic process?
cre ~ cer
Metathesis
/u/
back high tense rounded
Classical or Nonclassical
Double points if you can also guess the origins
Tomato
Nonclassical (Nahuatl)