HistEng Ch. 1

Which of these belongs to the internal history of the English language?

• the invention of printing

• the colonisation of North America

• both

• neither

What type of change does the following example illustrate? queen ('woman' > 'female monarch')

• syntactic

• morphological

• phonological

• semantic

• lexical

What type of change does the following example illustrate? I know that the boy the dog found > I know that the boy found the dog

• syntactic

• morphological

• phonological

• semantic

• lexical

What type of change does the following example illustrate? (thou) comest > (you) come

• syntactic

• morphological

• phonological

• semantic

• lexical

What word-formation process was used to produce the word to edit?

• affixation

• clipping

• back-formation

• acronym formation

• compounding

What word-formation process was used to produce the word laser?

• affixation

• clipping

• back-formation

• acronym formation

• compounding