History of English. Seminar 3

3. The oldest surviving Germanic epic and the longest Old English poem; it was likely composed between 700 and 750. 7. What type of mutation does the following example illustrate? “OHG: swestar → OE: sweostar”. 8. The most influential Old English dialect 11. The earliest form of English, spoken until around 1100 AD. 12. A change to initial vowels which took place when there was a high front vowel, (usually [i] , [ɪ] or [j]) in the following syllable 14. The alphabet used by Germanic tribes before the Latin script. 15. What type of mutation does the following example illustrate? “OHG: swestar → OE: sweostar”. (second word) 16. The term for the study and classification of historical language stages.

1. A major phonological shift in the 15th century that transformed English vowel pronunciation 2. What is the linguistic term for the phenomenon in Old English where different roots are used for the same grammatical paradigm, as seen in "go" and "went"? 4. What century scientists agreed to call the beginning of the Middle English period? 5. The process through which a language adopts words from another language. 6. What noun case was falling out of use due to having largely merged with dative case during the Old English period? 9. Where was Mercian spoken? 10. Which king contributed to the development of enlightenment and culture in 9th century England? 13. How many silent letters there were in the Old English?