Modern English Period

What is the timeline of Modern English period?

• 1600 to the present

• 1200 to 1500

• 1500 to the present

• 1100 to the present

What were the major factors which influenced this period?

• Renaissance scholarship,

• The religious controversies of the Reformation,

• Translations of the Bible,

• Changes in the pronunciation of vowels (the Great Vowel Shift)

Give an example for long vowels that are pronounced with a greater elevation of the tongue

• Fet > feet

• fod > food

• fame. > fame.

• Find >find

What is the linguistic importance of the Great Vowel Shift?

• Loss of r in final position and before consonants, as in car, heart

• Loss of t, especially between consonants as in castle, whistle

• it accounts for the great disparity between spelling and pronunciation in English

• Loss of /k, g,w/ in combinations such as gn, wr. kn

What are some of the features of inkhorn terms?

• an affectedly learned and obscure borrowing from another language, esp Greek or Latin

• they were deliberately introduced into the language, largely by scholars, and were deemed by some to be “pretentious” or “artificial”

• thousands of inkhorn terms that were introduced during the period have since fallen out of fashion

• drastically increased the lexicon of English

The adjectives royal, regal, kingly are.......

• Synonyms

• French words

• Latin words

• English words

If feminine : woman, then nasal: (a)  

Give examples for words that express disapproval of the Protestants against the Catholics.

• Papal

• Reprobate

• Papistical

• Monkish

Printing was introduced to England in the year.........................

• 1476

• 1576

• 1474

• 1574

Which is not an effect of printing on the English language?

• Established a standard variety of anguage

• gave currency to new coinages

• circulation of oral communication

• fixed spelling