ITL Tutorial 3 (WS24/25)

Select all that happened before 1067!

• Norman Conquest

• First Written English Documents

• Great Vowel Shift

• Noam Chomsky

During which English period did no standard form of the language exist?

Who of these people lived before Caxton introduced book printing to England?

• William Shakespeare

• Sir William Jones

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Panini

What form of English would Shakespeare have written in?

What did the Great Vowel Shift affect?

• Spelling

• Long Vowels

• Some Consonants

• Short Vowels

What form of English is syntactically the closest to German?

Which of these happened after 1450?

• Introduction of Printing Press

• French Influence on English

• Vikings warring the Neogrammarians

• Completion of Great Vowel Shift

What period of the English language is usually said to begin some time around the Independence of the United States?

Select the forms of English that Noam Chomsky, King James, and the Saxons would have spoken in!

• Middle English

• Modern English

• Old English

• Early Modern English

What form of English are you looking at?