LIN 301 Exam 1

“to lay” (for example, something on a table) is a:

causative verb

the “thorn” is:

an Old English letter

A poet writing in England in the year 800 likely composed in:

Old English

This man discovered a rule about consonant shifting that helps define the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages 

Jacob Grimm

The following were important aspects of Anglo-Saxon society:

kinship and revenge

Alfred forced the Vikings to settle in the territory known as

the Danelaw

Language contact with the Vikings contributed to

the decay of the Old English case system

The plural of children is:

a relic of the case system

the coming of Christianity is important to HEL because

Christianity brough with it the technology of writing

Old Norse and Old English are

closely related germanic languages

in the early days of Anglo-Saxon England

there were many independent kingdoms

AElfric’s “Life of St. Edmund”

relates a legend set during the Viking invasion of northern parts of England

Anglo-Saxon England ended in

1066

the sound change known as “i-Mutation” took place

around the time the Anglo-Saxons were migrating to Britain

When speakers create a new plural form “dice” modelled on the irregular plural “mice”, it is an example of 

analogy

One of Fred Robinson’s main arguments for the practical value of studying HEL is

recognizing a stratified English vocabulary (derived from Anglo-Saxon, French, and Greek and Latin) may help us use language more effectively

John McWhorter thinks that texting

is really “fingered speech”

more than Modern English, Old English was spelled the way it

sounded

the ‘m"‘ in “whom” represents

an old dative ending

a voiced velar plosive

g

an unvoiced sound

s

Romans invade Britain in

55 BCE and 43 CE

Roman’s withdraw- romanized Celts left to protect themselves

in 400CE

Age of Migration 

circa 300-700 - an era of social and politcal upheaval that reshaped the western world