History

Latin and Greek are examples of ------

• dead languages

• classical languages

• living languages

• western languages

Most English words are borrowed from ----

• Italy and Turkey

• India and Arabic countries

• France and Germany

• Scotland and Africa

Old English is often reffered to as the -------- period.

• Anglo Saxon

• Anglo Jutes

• Viking Age

• Saxon Anglo

English is a descendant of the ----- family of languages.

• Roman

• Scandinavian

• South Germanic

• West Germanic

English is characterized by its -----

• inflectional complexity

• inflectional simplicity

• inflectional diversity

• inflectional richness

The system of transferring voiced aspirated stops into voiceless fricatives is known as _____

• phonemic transformation

• Verner's exception

• Grimm's law

• The Great Vowel Shift

According to Verner, the voicelss fricatives become voiced if the preceeding syllable is ------

• stressed

• unstressed

• stressful

• stressless

The creation of derived forms is known as ______

• conjugations

• differentiation

• declentions

• conformity

The most important text in Middle English is _____

• Shakespeare's writings

• Beowulf

• The Canterbury Tales

The author of Beowuf is ------

• anonymous

• Chaucer

• Shakespeare