OE employed 2 ways of word-building: 1) derivation and 2) word-composition . (in alphabetical order)
Match the letters in bold with their pronunciation:
feet
snow (NE snow)
gentil
mercy
yet
good
sonne (NE son)
esy
thief
not (NE not)
The object in OE was subdivided into the direct object, which was in the Acc. case and the indirect object, which was in the Dat. case.
In addition to 4 grammatical categories of the OE finite verbs we must mention 2 debatable categories: aspect and voice. (in alphabetical order)
The Great Vowel Shift was first studied by the Danish linguist ... , who coined the term.
Otto Jespersen
The famous German linguist Jacob Grimm who considered strong verbs to be of “a more noble nature” as compared with weak verbs, because ...
they built their forms without inflexion or suffixes
OE Mann-cynn
compound word
OE daʒ > ME day [dai] – is one of the quantitative vowel changes.
Íå âåðíî
Identify the genre of the following EME written records:
Evil Times of Edward II - political
Ormulum - religious
Ancrene Riwle - religious
Brut - romantic
Pricke of Conscience - religious
Poema Morale - religious
Cursor Mundi - religious
King Horn - romantic
The London Proclamation - political
Havelok the Dane - adventures
Indicate what happened to a letter in ME period.
€
Came into disuse
In adjectives and nouns the stress fell to ...
The prefix
In OE there were two large groups of suffixes: suffixes of adjectives and suffixes of nouns . (in alphabetical order)
Noun suffixes are divided into suffixes of abstractnouns and those of agentnouns. (in alphabetical order)
Internal means of enriching Middle English vocabulary was word-formation
In studying the history of the language we face causes of changes, which can be divided into two kinds: (1) externaland (2) internal
There were three moods of the verb in OE: - the imperative , -the indicative and - the subjunctive . (in alphabetical order)
Mark the grammatical categories which are characteristic of the OE noun.
more than 25 declensions
4 cases (Nom., Gen., Dat., Acc.)
3 genders (masc., fem., neut.)
2 numbers (sg., pl.)
The OE vowels were distinguished within the following sets:
1. monophthongs and diphthongs
2. open and close
3. front and back
4. labialized and non-labialized .
All vowel changes in ME and ENE can be divided into (in the alphabetical order):
1. changes of stressed vowels
1.1. qualitative changes
1.2. quantitative changes
2. changes of unstressedvowels
Mark the sounds which were positional variants of the phonemes in OE.
[v] [s] [ð]
What happened to OE sounds [f] – [v], [θ] – [ð], [s] – [z] in ME? Were they treated as allophones or as separate phonemes?
[θ] – [ð] allophones
[f] – [v] separate phonemes
[s] – [z] ?
There were the following classes of verbs in OE:
1. minor groups of the verbs:
1.1. anomalous verbs;
1.2. preterite-present verbs;
1.3. suppletive verbs.
2. strong verbs ( 7 (How many?) classes);
3. weak verbs ( 3 (How many?) classes);
Indicate the source of the borrowing in the ME.
uncle- French
Match the given characteristic features with the names of the periods of the EL history:
No literary tradition in oral dialects prehistoric
English was transformed into mainly analytical language ENE
The stage of tribal dialects prehistoric
English was restored to the position of the state language ME
Synthetic language with a well-developed system of morphological categories OE
There appeared norms and standards in English ENE
The first printed book in English appeared ME
Name the type of replacement illustrated by the example.
e.g. the modern Common case of nouns and OE cases – Nom., Gen. and Acc.
Merging
Fill in the gap. Indicate the case of the following infinitives.
Beran – Nominative case
To berenne / to beranne -Dativecase
To which etymological layer does the following word belong?
land(land) – Common Germanic
Match the type of subjunctive and its meaning in ENE.
I/he were young– past
I/he be young – present
I/he should be young – present
I should be young / He would be young – past
Match the letters in bold with their pronunciation:
ʒlēo
ʒiefan
lēoð
wyrð
tahte
niht
sinʒan
sorʒ
secʒan
selfa
The subject in OE could be expresed by:
numeral participle pronoun noun
One of the most important developments in Late ME and Early NE syntax was the growth of predicative constructions such as:
- Complex Object or Objective predicative Construction;
- Complex Subject or Subjective predicative Construction;
- Gerundial complexes.
The most productive types of word-composition in M and EN E are
1. noun +noun
2. gerund+ noun
A new pattern in ME was verb + adverb
Put the periods of the EL history into the right order.
_________ is a phonological process in which short vowels were diphthongized before certain consonant clusters (œ > ea, e > eo).
Fracture
Match the meanings of the cases with their names:
It is used for attributes to other nouns; with possessive and partitive meaning. - Genitive
It is the case of the active agent; is also used instead of the Vocative case. Dative
It is used for the direct object; indicates a relationship to a verb. Nominative
It is used with prepositions; for indirect personal object; with instrumental meaning. Accusative
What type of form-building is used in each case:
ban (sg.) - ban (pl.) - NE bone zero-inflection
modor (sg.) - modru (pl.) - NE mother inflection
mus (sg.) - mys (pl.) - NE mouse umlaut
bryd (sg.) - brydas (pl.) - NE brideinflection
Classify the following OE written records:
Franks Casket
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Angloum Latin
Ruthwell Cross
Beowulf - Mercian/northumbrian dialect
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle latin
Cura Pastoralis
The Battle of Maldon
The verb predicate agreed with the subject of the sentence in two grammatical categories: number and person . (in alphabetical order)
The Participle was a kind of verbal adjective , the infinitive was a kind of verbal noun
What is the correct transcription for the following diagraph:
Aw [au]
Match the items.
it expressed states and qualities resulting from past action - participle II
it was passive – participle II
it was active - participle I
it expressed present or simultaneous processes and qualities – participle I
Match the following LME written records with their authors:
Vox Clamantis - john goward
Pearl - unknown
Wallace - henry the ministrel
The Vision Concerning Piers the Plowman - Langland
Polychronicon - hidgen
The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
King’s Quhair - king james of scotland
Fill in the gaps with appropriate words to complete the sentence:
The type of the connection between the head noun and the adjective in ENEwas changed from agreement to joining
Word formation fell into two types: word composition and word derivation. (in alphabetical order)
Match the linguistic school and its main ideas about causes of linguistic changes.
Psychologists thought that
Naturalists thought that
Sociologists thought that
Young-Grammarian school representatives thought that
Match the items.
The strong verbs of each class had 4 principle forms (or 4 stems):
I stem present indicative, subjunctive, participle 1
II stem 1st and 3rd person singular, preterite
III stem – plural and 2nd person singular, preterite, preterite subjunctive
IV stem – participle II
OE personal pronoun 'hie' (3rd p., sg.) was replaced by Scandinavian they . Personal pronoun 'ic' changed into I and 'þu' - into you in NE.
The length of the OE vowels was shown by ...
A macron
How many principal dialects of the Germanic tribes existed in Britain in the 5th century?
The OE adjectives had 2 principal types of declension: strong declension, which had the meaning of indefiniteness, and weak declension, which expressed the meaning of definiteness.
Identify the type of declension of the following items:
ilca (NE “same”) weak
ordinal numerals weak
cardinal numerals - strong
ōþer (NE “other”) - strong
comparative adjectives - weak
superlative adjectives weak or strong
maniʒ (NE “many”) -strong
eall (NE “all”) - strong
The principal means of derivation in OE were (in the order of frequency of their use)
1. suffixation
Prefixation
Sound interchanges
Word stress
The OE strong verbs built their forms with the help of ablaut, and the OE weak verbs built their forms with the help of dental suffixes –t- and –d-
The late ME period in literature is known as "the age of Chaucer
Name the process illustrated below
e.g. caru > OE ceares –NE care
Back umlaut
Which underlined part of the statement should be changed in order for the sentence to be correct?
EME included the following dialectal groups: (A) Southern group, (B) Midland group, (C) Northern group, (D) Western group.
The OE nouns were divided into types of declension according to the stem-building suffix