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YEAR III

History of English - FINAŁ EXAM

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11)    The borrowings from French into Middle English came from two different areas and periods. What are they?

• AREA:_ PERIOD:_

• AREA:_ PERIOD:_ (4 points)

12)    England in the Middle English period was as trilingual culture, where each language had its role. What were the three languages and what were their areas of dominance? (6 points)

•    LANGUAGE:_; the language of:_,_,_.

•    LANGUAGE:_; the language of:_,_,_.

•    LANGUAGE:_; the language of:_,_,_.

13)    Middle English had five major regional dialects: (5 points)

•    _

14)    By the 1490s, _ set up his press in Westminster. The new invention gave an

unprecedented impetus to the formation of a standard language and the study of its properties. The advent of_is considered to have given birth to early Modem English. (2 points)

15) _was the first standard of writing the vernacular in England sińce Aethlwold's school at

Winchester 400 or so years before. (2 points)

16)    A major change in English that resulted in new phonemic representations of words and morphemes took

place approximately between 1400 and 1600. It is known as the_. The seven long, or

tense, vowels of Middle English underwent serious changes. (1 point)

17) The following are the exampłes of_: anacephalize to recapitulate, adnichilate: reduce

to nothing, annihilate, eximious: exce)ient, distinguished, emitent, exolete disused, obsolete; effete. insipid; faded These words came into English in the early to middle sixteenth century, with the first attested usage

dating from 1543. These words were words coined from_or_and were

used for educated effect and sonie power. (3 points)

18)    Modem English was shaped (among other things) by the emergence of new functions of such words as ‘do’ or 'ing\ What is the function of ‘do’ in the following examples: (3 points)

•    She told me they asked her to do this VH-1 thing, and she told them the only way she'd do it was if

we dkf it, too    _

•    Do you really need to go there alone?    _

•    She does love you!    _

19)    Ali textbooks on the history of English agree that the two most important influences on the development

of the language during the finał decades of the Renaissance are the works of_and

_of 1611. (2 points)

20)    What are the names of these people? (2 points)

_- an English theologian and an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the

14th century. He founded the Lollard movement, a precunsor to the Protestant Reformation; one of the earliest antagonists of the papai encroachments on secular power; felt that all Christians should have access to the Bibie in the vernacular.

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