Ling 150 Week 02 Day 3 Review

Who fended off the Norse Vikings and established English as a reputable language?

• William the Conqueror

• Alfred the Great

• Edward the Confessor

• William Shakespeare

True or False: Most languages don't change through history the way English has.

• True

• False

What was the first great literary work produced during the Old English period?

• Othello

• Paradise Lost

• Canterbury Tales

• Beowulf

Which language had a significant influence on Middle English?

• Celtic

• Anglo-Saxon

• French

• Norse

True or False: The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes to English consonants.

• True

• False

True or False: The Great Vowel Shift helped to change Middle English to Modern English.

• True

• False

Which author invented many new words and idioms in English?

• William Shakespeare

• John Milton

• Alexander Pope

• Jonathan Swift

What do we call a language that is the historic source of other languages that developed later?

• father

• ancestor

• origin

• root

Which term refers to the study of a language as it exists in the present time?

• diachronic

• modern

• synchronic

• current

Which peoples originally inhabited the British Isles during the Pre-Historic Period of English?

• Jutes

• Franks

• Visigoths

• Celts