Old Germanic Morphology

The Old Germanic languages were analytic languages.

• True

• False

The main way of building grammatical forms was suppletion.

• True

• False

Sound interchanges were frequent in Old Germanic languages.

• True

• False

Ablaut represents a series of independent consonant changes.

• True

• False

The Germanic languages used both qualitative and quantitative ablaut.

• True

• False

Consonant changes were more common in Germanic than vowel changes.

• True

• False

The structure of words in Late Proto-Germanic was simplified.

• True

• False

Weak verbs are characterized by a great variety of form.

• True

• False

1.     Which of the following ways of changing grammatical forms are not synthetic? (Check all that apply)

• inflections

• suppletion

• word order

• sound interchanges

• auxiliary words

The grammatical form better of the adjective good is an example of the following means of form-building

• inflection

• sound interchange

• grammatical prefixation

• suppletion