quiz 1

Within West Germanic languages, English belongs to…

• The Celtic branch

• The Low German branch

• The High German branch

• The Anglo Frisian branch

One of the main phonological differences between Germanic languages and other members of the Indo-European family is based on…

• The loss of prevocalic *p-

• Brugmann’s law

• Grimm’s law

• Bartholomae’s law

What is a cognate?

• a word which has the same linguistic origin as another one

• a word which has no parallels in other languages

• a word which has been borrowed from another language.

• A word which is no longer…

The asterisk (*) in historical linguistics marks…

• Words or sounds which do not exist

• Words or sounds which are cognates

• Words or sounds which are not directly recorded and have been reconstructed

• All of the above

Choose the incorrect option. The comparative method…

• Is also of help for language typology

• Aims to predict the future of a language

• Laid the foundation of philology

• Has phonology at its core

Who invaded Britain from the 5th century onwards?

• Vikings

• Celts

• Angles, Saxons, and Jutes

• Normans

Where is Proto-Indo-European assumed to have been spoken between 6000 – 4000 BC?

• North Europe

• North and Central America

• Central Europe and South Asia

• North Asia

English is a/an

• East Germanic language

• West Germanic language

• South Germanic language

• North Germanic language

By the end of the OE period, the dialect that had become dominant was…

• Northumbrian

• Mercian

• Kentish

• West Saxon

What is a protolanguage?

• It is a hypothetical or reconstructed typically extinct language

• The origin of all languages

• The first language

• A reconstructed language which is still spoken