English Language History Quiz

Tribal dialectal division was replaced by geographical in:

• Early OE

• OE

• Early ME

• ME

• New English

The North Germanic subgroup is represented by:

• Icelandic, Danish, Frisian, Swedish, Netherlandish

• Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish, Swedish, Faroese

• Norwegian, Netherlandish, Icelandic, Danish, Swedish

• Danish, Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic, Netherlandish

• Icelandic, Dutch, Frisian, Swedish, Danish

The West Germanic languages are:

• English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Hebrew, Faroese

• English, Netherlandish, German, Yiddish, Flemish, Dutch

• German, English, Danish, Frisian, Yiddish, Afrikaans

• English, Netherlandish, Afrikaans, German, Yiddish, Frisian

• English, Swedish, Afrikaans, Frisian, German, Dutch

The East Germanic brunch is represented by:

• Gaelic, Gothic, Gallic

• Gothic, Vandalic, Gaelic

• Gothic, Vandalic, Burgundian

• Kymric, Gothic, Burgundian

• Gaelic, Vandalic, Burgundian

The basic word stock of any language consists of ...

• foreign words

• scientific terms

• simple, most frequent, native words

• high literary words

• abbreviations

The basic word stock of English consists of ...

• Danish, Norwegian, Swedish words

• French, Spanish, Italian

• Indo-European, Anglo-Saxon, Common Germanic words

• Chinese, Japanese

• Russian, Bulgarian, Polish

The number of foreign influences on English were ...

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 1

• 2

In chronological order the foreign influences on English were ...

• Celtic, Latin, Scandinavian, French

• Latin, Celtic, Scandinavian, French

• French, Celtic, Latin, Scandinavian

• Greek, Spanish, Russian, Latin

• Scandinavian, French, Greek

Point out main inner ways of vocabulary development:

• assimilation and diphthongization

• derivation and composition

• reduction and conversion

• variation and simplification

• abbreviation and suffixation

Affixation is ...

• fixation and marking

• reduction and diphthongization

• prefixation and suffixation

• assimilation and palatalization

• conversion and abbreviation