The history of English

Multiple Choice

In the evolution of English, the period identified as Old English was:

• Before the 5th century

• The 11th century

• Between the 5th and 11th centufy

• After the 12th century

Multiple Choice

The "Great vowel shift" occured in wich period?

• Modern English

• Old English

• Early Modern English

• Middle English

Poll

Words like "give, sky, they, take" were introduced in which period?

• Old English

• Middle English

• Modern English

Multiple Choice

English came first into contact with French in the period of Modern English?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

In the sound changes that English suffered, the process of metathesis implies...

• Losing sounds

• Changing the position of sounds

• Adding sounds

• Reversing the postion of sounds

Poll

Words like "escribir" from scribere and "espíritu" (from spiritus) show a clear case of

• Epenthesis

• Metathesis

• Sound loss

• Prothesis

Multiple Choice

The meaning of "hound" or "meat" that we know nowadays is a semantic change that shows:

• Narrowing of meaning

• Broadening of meaning

Open Ended

Name some examples that show the semantic process of semantic "broadening".

Open Ended

Name some examples of syntactic changes in the evolution of English: