Лингвострановедение Лекция5

Native OE words can be subdivided into .... main layers

• 2

• 3

• 4

Words containing a root-morpheme and no derivational affixes are called

• simple

• derived

• compound

Words, consisting of one root-morpheme and one or more affixes, are called ...

• simple

• derived

• compound

Words, whose stems were made up of more than one root-morpheme, are called ...

• simple

• derived

• compound

What was the most productive means of word derivation in OE?

• Suffixation

• Prefixation

• Word stress

Word order in OE was...

• fixed

• free

• indirect

• Words that are shared by several Germanic languages but are not found ouside the group

• • common IE words

• • common Germanic words

• • specifically OE words

• Words which occur in Old English only and not in any other Germanic language

• • specifically OE words

• • common Germanic words

• • common IE words

• nouns and verbs: fōd – fēdan (NE food – feed) - an example of...

• Sound interchange

• suffixation

• prefixation

OE was

• largely a synthetic language

• an analytical language

• an artificial language