What is the Germanic? The common form that languages of the Jutes and Saxons branch had The common form that languages used in the UK after the Roman Empire’s conquest The common form that languages of the Germanic branch had before they became differentiated.
How are divided the languages belonging to the Germanic branch? High Germanic and Low Germanic East Germanic, North Germanic and South Germanic East Germanic, North Germanic and West Germanic.
Which is the branch that English belongs to? High Germanic West Germanic North Germanic.
How is the West Germanic branch divided? High Germanic and Low Germanic High German and Low German High German, Middle German and Low German.
Where does Modern English come from? It descended from the Germanic languages spoken in Europe, that later became the Germanic language, from with both German, Lantin and English descended It is the language that resulted from the mixture between old English and Latin It is the language that resulted from the history of the dialects spoken by the Germanic tribes that conquered England.
Is there any big difference between the languages of the Germanic tribes? Yes, these were very different languages that is why OE is thought to be a creole language The language of the Saxons and the Angles were very similar (Anglo-Saxon language comes from those two similar languages) but the language of the Jutes was very different No, the differences were very slight.
What does it mean that English belongs to the West Germanic branch? That it shares bot grammatical and lexicon with German languages That it is not an Indo-European language That it shares certain characteristics common to all the Germanic languages.
What are the periods in the history of English language? Old Anglo- Saxon English, Middle West Germanic English and Modern English Old English, Middle English and Standard London English Old English, Middle English and Modern English.
Was Old English a uniform language? Yes, it was No, it wasn’t.
What were the main dialects of Old English? Common Brittonic, East Saxon, Mercian and Kentish Low Franconian, Saxon, Northumbrian and Kentish Northumbrian, West Saxon, Mercian and Kentish.
The main differences between OE and ME concern… Spelling, grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary Grammar and vocabulary issues Spelling and vocabulary changes.
How was the sound “sh” represented in OE? By d By P By “sc”.
Why did the vocabulary of OE disappear? Because of the loss of inflections Because of the Norman Conquest Because of the arrival of Germanic tribes after the Roman Conquest.
What kind of language is OE? Inflectional Synthetic Analytical.
What was the reason for the leveling of inflections in Middle English? Due to phonetic changes and the operation of analogy Due to the operation of analogy Due to the loss of genre in the adjective and noun.
What was one of the consequences of the decay of inflections in Middle English? The loss of the genre in the adjective The change of the final -m for an -n The Great Vowel Shift.
How was the verb in OE conjugated? It was conjugated similar to the Spanish conjugation (indicative, subjunctive, …) It was divided into the weak and strong conjugation It was divided into regular and irregular verbs.
When did manuals for teaching French begin to appear in GB? 1250 1350 1520.
How many languages were used in Medieval English? 1 (only French) 2 (French and English) 3 (Latin, English and French).
Where was French predominant in GB? Regions near Kent Oxford and Cambridge Regions near London.
When did the emphasis for speaking in English again begin in GB? 13th cent 14th cent End 12th cent.
When was French an artificial language in Great Britain? End 12th cent 13th cent 14th cent.
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