HOE15

Modern English

1.    What are the periods we can divide the Modern English period into?

2.    What was the language that English competed with from the early 16^łh century? Why?

3. What were the key events which led to the rise of English as a national language?

4.    Who was Ralph Lever?

5.    Latin words had been borrowed into English long before the Renaissance? What is so specific about Latin-loans in the Early Modern English period?

6.    In what ways were Latin words adapted to English?

7. What were inkhom terms? Give a few examples.

8.    What words were borrowed into English because of commerce and contact with European countries?

9.    What words came into English through travel, trade and conquest?

10.    What words came into English from the world of science, naturalist study and technology?

11.    Who was Alexander Gili? What was he fighting for?

12.    What is Renaissance?

13.    What are the characteristics of the spelling reform?

14.    Give examples of how Renaissance scholars were changing words?

15.    How did the spelling reform change people’s attitudes to English?

16.    What were the three most powerful word-formation processes in the Early Modern English period?

17.    What were the most commonly used affixes?

8. What were the typical compounds of the time?

19.    How was the Early Modern English grammar changing when it comes to present-plural verb inflection?

20.    How was the Early Modern English grammar changing when it comes to plural of nouns?

21.    How was the Early Modern English grammar changing when it comes to demonstrative pronouns?

22.    How was the Early Modern English grammar changing when it comes to personal pronouns?

23.    How was the Early Modern English grammar changing when it comes to relative pronouns?

24.    How was the Early Modern English grammar changing when it comes to perfect tenses?

25.    What were the problems with the so called ‘dummy auxiliary’? Why was it called like this?

26.    What is the Great Vowel Shift? When did it take place?

27.    What changes in pronunciation do we observe during the GVS process? Give examples.

28.    What was the impact of the GVS on speech and writing?

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