History
What period of time does Old English cover?
450-1100
The study of how words are selected and arranged to form sentences
What is lexicology
the study of the form, meaning, and behaviour of words.
What is broadening and provide an example
A semantic change by which the meaning of a word becomes broader or more inclusive than its earlier meaning.
Name the language that the vikings spoke?
Old Norse
What is the nominative case
The subject in a sentence
Define Commonisation
when something that originally was a name, loses its capital and in turn becomes a household name
Define shift
When a word retains none of it's original definition and has come to mean something entirely different
What are the names of the Germanic tribes that sailed from the lowlands looking for land and a better life?
Jules, Angles and Saxons
Old english was what type of language
synthetic language
List three writing conventions from Old English
1. No spaces
2. No capitals
3. No punctuation
How do changes in meaning occur?
Broadening, narrowing, shift and connotations
Latin
what word order was used in OE
verb, object, complement
What are possible reasons of word loss?
What is 'hello' in old english
gretungpord,salam, enchante, ahlan wa salan, gretungord
Name two way was English grammar simplified as a result of the Old Norse influence?
Restructures English and inflectional affixes lose meaning
Describe the effect old norse has on OE gender nouns
Grammatical gender of nouns ( m/f/neuter) were replaced with biological gender (His book/ Her book)
Name three different word formation process
Conversion, Compounding, Initialism
What is semantic change
The evolution of word usage