HisofEng

1. Аpproaches to division of English.

A. Historical B. According to writing documents C. by grammar categories D. A, D, C

2. The Middle English period is the period from the …up to …century.

A. 15th to 16th B. 5th to 7th C. 5th to 9th D. 15th to 17th

3. What are main phonetic process in the Old English period

A. palatal mutation B. breaking C. velar mutation D. diphthongization

4. Can Verner’s Law explain the appearance and development of voiceless fricatives in Old English?

5. bhrata →broðar; bala → pol; granum → kaurn are examples of …

A. Verner’s Law B. Great Vowel Shift C. velar mutation D. Grimm’s Law

6. What principle is used for the division for the Old English nouns into certain declensions?

A. gender B. suffix C. stem D. ending

7. The existence of proto-language dates back to …

A. 15 century B. 10 century C. 8 century D. A, B, C.

8. The adjective declensions of Old English?

A. 7 B. 2 C. 4 D. 5

9. The most remarkable works of Old English?

10. What prominent scholars of Old English period you know?

11. There are …classes of OE weak verbs

A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

12. How many strong verbs in Old English?

A. 4 B. 17 C. 6 D. A, B, C.

13. What verbs in OE listed are irregular

A. 2 - beon, gan B. 3 - beon, don C. 4 - gan, don, willan D. 5 - beon, gan, willan, witan

14. What are the internal ways of enriching the vocabulary in OE

A. morphological B. syntactic C. Syntactic and semantic D. A, B, C.

15. Traditionally the ME period begins from the year…

A. 998 B. 1044 C. 1066 D. 1147

17. What kind of change in the Middle English phonology could be called the most fundamental one?

A. the fixed stress on the second syllable B. leveling of vowels in unstressed syllables

C. monophthongization D. creation of new diphthongs

18. How many case forms of nouns survived in Middle English after leveling of endings?

A. 2 B. 3

C. 1 D. 4

19. Which form of adjective lost all the endings in Middle English?

A. strong singular B. strong plural C. weak singular D. weak plural

20. What type of verbs in Middle English became greater and continued to grow?

A. strong B. weak C. preterite-present D. irregular

21. Numerals in ME …

A. declined B. had the category of gender C. lost the category of gender D. no longer declined

22. What is a new part of speech in the ME appeared

A. Preposition B. the Article C. Pronoun D. Particle

23. Word order in ME syntax was

A. Liberal B. Fixed C. A and B D. Not clear

24. The result of the Great Vowel Shift caused

A. short diphthongs B. long diphthongs C. shwa sounds D. A, B, C.

25. What is a completely new phenomenon in the Early New English word-formation?

A. derivation B. compounding C. semantic word building D. conversion

26. When the Early New English begins

A. 19 th century B. 18 th century C. 20 th century D.

28. Nouns in Early New English …the category of gender

A. preserved B. lost C. partly preserved D. partly lost