a) Old English b) Middle English c) early Modern English a) Scandinavian b) French c) Latin a) coc b) draf c) deop T F

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1 N o question answer 1. Which period of English does Sumer is icumen in come from? a) Old English b) Middle English c) early Modern English 2. 3 rd person singular -s ending comes from: 3. Derive the PdE equivalents of the following OE words 4. Double negation was permitted in OE. 5. Doubling of consonants in Ormulum was used to: How did Orm mark the vocalic length in his text? What is the name of that text? a) Scandinavian b) French c) Latin a) coc b) draf c) deop T F a) indicate that the proceeding vowel was shorter b) indicate that the proceeding vowel was longer c) it had no clear purpose 6. Explain the change that occurred in sign- signify. 7. Explain the following terms and provide examples of each: a) pejoration b) amelioration c) narrowing 8. Explain the following terms: a) TRISH b) CLL c) CLS 9. From which language was Tyndale's Bible translated? 10. Front rounded vowels existed in OE, unlike in Modern English 11. How did the influx of French words influence the English lexicon? In 14 th century English words expanded their meaning and a) Hebrew b) Latin c) French T F a) English words narrowed in meaning but the lexicon was broadened. b) English words gained a number of synonyms. c) Some English words started to disappear, exchanged by their French synonyms. T F

2 the vocabulary was narrowed. 12. How many French words entered into the English language between ? 13. How many people died during the outbreak of Black Death in 1348? 14. How many per cent of OE words were of Germanic origins? 15. How many psalms did King Alfred translate? 16. How does ī + ld behave in Cluster Shortening? 17. In the word <luflice> what does the morpheme lic stand for? 18. In what language was the Colloquy on the Occupation originally written? In which language did Ælfric write the Colloquy on the Occupations? 19. In what way did the Great Vowel Shift change the pronunciation of the following sounds? 20. In what year was the first English dictionary created? 21. In which text did phrasal verbs appear? Were phrasal verbs present in OE? 22. King James` Bible is in 85% based on: 23. Nowadays the word silly possesses negative a) 5000 b) c) a) Approx. 1 million out of 4 million b) Approx. 2 million out of 5 million c) Approx. o,5 million out of 3 million a) 97% b) 30% c) 62% a) 150 b) 50 c) 100 A ī B i C ai a) it marks an adjective b) it marks a verb c) it marks a noun a) Old English b) Latin c) French d) West Germanic a) /i:/ b) /o:/ c) /e:/ (open) a) 1604 b) 1650 c) 1700 a) Proclamation of Henry III b) Ælfric c) Cura Pastoralis a) Wycliffe`s translation b) Tyndale`s translation c) Henry V s original work a) Pejoration b) Amelioration

3 connotations, whereas in Old English it meant happy. Such semantic change of meaning is called: 24. OSL appears in one of these words. Choose the correct one and derive its PdE form. 25. Provide OE paradigms of these words: 26. Provide the paradigm of 3 rd person singular <he> (OE). 27. The Anglo-Saxon chronicle is unique because it was written: 28. The PdE equivalent of baþian is: 29. There were at least three ways of marking gerund in OE enumerate all, and choose which one is preserved in PdE. 30. What aspect of French language exerted the greatest influence on English? c) Grimm s Law d) Verner s Law a) bacan b) dyppan c) disc a) word b) scip a) by Alfred the Great. b) in a language used by nobility. c) in a spoken language. a) bathe b) bath c) both a) Grammar b) Vocabulary c) phonology d) a, b and c 31. What did Lollards do? Who were Lollards? 32. What happened in 1362? a) French started to replace English b) English became the official language of the court c) Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales d) Black Death 33. What is grammaticalization? 34. What language was used for conducting the services in church during the Norman reign? 35. What was Chancery English? 36. What was the name of the Dunish part of England created by Alfred the Great? 37. What was the process responsible for the alternation keep- kept? a) French b) English c) Latin a) Dunlaw b) Daneisland c) Danelaw a) TRISH b) Cluster Shortening c) GVS 38. What was the underlying a) SVO

4 word order in Old English? 39. What wasn t the innovation in Middle English? 40. When was the Proclamation of King Henry III written? 41. Which of the statements about Cura Pastoralis is NOT true? 42. Which of the suffixes doesn t come from Danish? 43. What is the name of the phonological process which caused the disappearance of OE diphthongs? 44. Who introduced the system of feudalism in England? 45. Who/what brought the Black Death to Britain? 46. Why was the Church opposed to Tyndale s and Wycliffe s translating the Bible into English? 47. Who was the author of Table Alphabetical? 48. What is Table Alphabetical? 49. Which of the features mentioned characterise Old English of the eight and nine b) SOV c) OSV a) The beginning of the loss of the inflectional ending. b) No more words of Latin and Greek origin entered English lexicon. c) Language of poetry reflected the spoken language. a) 1258 b) 1315 c) 1265 a) It was written in Latin in the 6 th century. b) It was translated into OE by King Alfred, ruler of the kingdom of Sussex. c) It is one of the most important ecclesiastical texts in early medieval Europe. a) by c) ing d) son a) William the Conqueror b) Henry II c) King Alfred d) William the Waterville a) French lords b) Rats c) Arabian merchants a) Latin was truly God`s language and God would destroy the Universe if someone dared to do this b) The situation when the ordinary people could not understand the Bible was convenient for the Church since the clergymen were able to overuse their power. c) An ordinary man should not translate God`s words. a. Robert Cawdry b. William Tyndale c. William Caxton a. three contrastive heights b. no short long vowels symmetry c. no front rounded vowels y: and {:

5 centuries? 50. Which vowels were influenced by Great Vowel Shift? 51. What were the two types of passive in Old and Middle English? 52. What are the characteristic features of impersonal sentences? 53. Which diphthong was borrowed from French? 54. Modern not developed from ne 55. Describe the process of Anglo Frisian Brightening a. long b. short c. both long and short a. /ai/ b. /oi/ c. /ou/ T/F 56. John Cheke opted for: a. the introduction of dictionaries b. standardisation of spelling c. the purity of the language 57. Who translated the Bible from Latin into English? a. John Wycliffe b. William Tyndale c. William Caxton The translation was made in which century? a. 12c. b. 13c. c. 14c. 58. Provide the phonological changes in the OE word brecan PdE break 59. Which word changed into PdE not? 60. In whose work was the do periphrasis first attested? 61. When did the English kingdom lose Normandy? What were the consequences?. 62. What is the source of MnE definite article the? 63. OE had the following diphthongs: a. ne b. nine c. naht a. Shakespeare b. Chaucer c. Venerable Bede a b c consequences a. au, æa, e:o, æ:a b. au, ai, oi, ei c. æ:a, æa, e:o, eo

6 64. What do the following abbreviations stand for? 65. What was hardening and what was the context for it in OE? 66. Why was the Germanic fixed stress abandoned in ME? 67. Who and when was the founder of the first publishing house? 68. What was the most important linguistic consequence of the introduction of printing? 69. What was the phonological status of fricatives in OE? AFB, WGG, DHH, Hardening is. Contexts: a. gemination b. word initially c. after a nasal a. Scandinavian influence b. bilingualism c. morphological changes a. Tyndale b. Wycliffe c. Caxton When? What were the consequences of the status of fricatives mentioned in 69? 71. According to Grimm s Law, how did /p, t, k, k w / change if not preceded by s? 72. What is Indo-European ablaut? 73. How did the underlying word-order change in the history of English? 74. Which ME dialect developed into standard Present-Day English? 75. What are 3 major sources of diphthongs in ME? a) Kentish b) Northern c) East Midland d) West Midland e) Southern 76. Which Germanic family of languages does English belong to?

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