The document discusses various grammatical changes that occurred in the history of the English language from Old English to Modern English, including:
1. The loss of inflectional endings on adjectives and nouns, which led to the development of analytical grammatical forms.
2. The disappearance of grammatical gender and cases such as dative.
3. The origins of various grammatical structures in Modern English, such as the gerund and present-day verb forms, from their predecessors in Old English.
4. Phonological processes like the Great Vowel Shift that impacted the English sound system and morphology over time.
The document discusses various grammatical changes that occurred in the history of the English language from Old English to Modern English, including:
1. The loss of inflectional endings on adjectives and nouns, which led to the development of analytical grammatical forms.
2. The disappearance of grammatical gender and cases such as dative.
3. The origins of various grammatical structures in Modern English, such as the gerund and present-day verb forms, from their predecessors in Old English.
4. Phonological processes like the Great Vowel Shift that impacted the English sound system and morphology over time.
The document discusses various grammatical changes that occurred in the history of the English language from Old English to Modern English, including:
1. The loss of inflectional endings on adjectives and nouns, which led to the development of analytical grammatical forms.
2. The disappearance of grammatical gender and cases such as dative.
3. The origins of various grammatical structures in Modern English, such as the gerund and present-day verb forms, from their predecessors in Old English.
4. Phonological processes like the Great Vowel Shift that impacted the English sound system and morphology over time.
The document discusses various grammatical changes that occurred in the history of the English language from Old English to Modern English, including:
1. The loss of inflectional endings on adjectives and nouns, which led to the development of analytical grammatical forms.
2. The disappearance of grammatical gender and cases such as dative.
3. The origins of various grammatical structures in Modern English, such as the gerund and present-day verb forms, from their predecessors in Old English.
4. Phonological processes like the Great Vowel Shift that impacted the English sound system and morphology over time.
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Basic grammatical categories… were lost by the adjective in Late Middle
English – number,gender,case,definiteness/indefiniteness 2. Most peculiar feature of the development… of English personal pronouns – basis of different dialectal elements 3. d) 4. grammatical category of gender was ruined in Early – was largely ruined because unstressed endings were lost 5. syntactical source of the present-day analytical form – verb to have 6. simplification of the grammatical forms of presentation of the category of number of nouns – reduction of unstressed endings 7. irregular plural form of the noun child in Modern – comes back to Old English vocalic stems 8. origin of the … they – it is Scandinavian borrowing 9. origin of the form of the Modern English possessive case – Old English genitive case 10.origin of the gerund in Modern English – Old English verbal noun 11.origin of the present-day verbal ending of the third person singular – Northern dialects of English 12.grammatical category of gender of nouns completely disappeared – the end of the Middle English period 13.right explanation … of … definite article in English – demonstrative pronoun 14.syntactical source of the present-day continuous – was the combination of the verb beon / wesan and participle 15.why the word order became fixed in a Middle English simple sentence – inflections were mostly lost in Middle English 16.grammatical changes as the result of which analytical forms have developed in the history of English – Grammaticalization 17.analytical forms of the oblique moods in English – subjunctive forms were lost as a result of the reduction 18.basic reason for the appearance of numerous formations by analogy in … system of strong verbs Middle… Modern – result of the ruin of gradation patterns 19.origin of the particle to before the infinitive in Modern English – a preposition 20.syntactical source of the present-day analytical form of the future tense – willan and the infinitive 21.origin of the grammatical form of the Modern English personal pronoun – plural nominative form 22.adjective lost its inflectional forms – reduction of unstressed vowels in inflections 23.part of speech … has acquired new grammatical categories – the verb 24.personal pronoun of the second person singular disappear from the every- day literary language usage – seventeen-eighteen centuries 25.origin of the past ending –ed of … regular verbs- dental suffix of Old Germanic 26.archaic form thou – personal pronoun of the second person singular 27.double negation – in Late Modern English 28.for the weakening of case endings in nouns in Middle English – action of reduction of unstressed vowels 29.development of modal verbs in English – preterite-present verbs 30.the present day analytical form of the passive voice – basis of the compound nominal predicate (the verb beon/wesan and participle ||) 31.irregular plural form of the noun ox (oxen) – Old English weak stems 32.feet, geese, men – English root-stems 33.disappearance of the dative case in Middle English – changes in the semantic structure of the case 34.grammatical categories of the adjective – only the grammatical category of degrees of comparison 35.deep in the phrase four feet deep - of the adverb 36.Modern English suffix of adverbs – combination of the Old English adjectves… and … the Old English adverb 37.reason for the ruin of the gradation patterns – as a result of phonetic changes 38.of the grammatical form hath + past participle – action performed in the past and connected with the present 39.present-day English non-standard verbs – strong and weak 40.shall and will … in the times of Shakespeare – shall and will for the persons was not yet fixed 41.grammatical forms …of the verbal paradigm – in Late Modern English 42.write-wrote-written and bite-bit-bitten – regular phonetic changes 43.new parts of speech in Middle and Early Modern English – Particles and interjections 44.“when yellow leaves ,or none , or tew” – stylistically neutral grammatical 45.my and mine in the times of Shakespeare – grammatically conditioned 46. possessive pronoun its appeared – Early Modern English 47.indefinite article in Modern English – to the numeral 48.origin of the regular plural noun ending in Modern English – a stems 49.present subjunctives form 50.basic pattern of the development of Modern English regular verbs – class 1 (regular) and verbs of class 2 51.time of the appearance … first French loan-words in English – Benedictine reform 52.functional character of Early Modern English French – widely used in oral 53.semantic spheres of use of Old English Latin loan-words do - spheres of use in that period were religion , education , and learning 54.explains the appearance of the suffixes : -able, -age, -or, -ess – they are borrowed suffixes from French 55.origin of the Modern English lexemes : cattle , to catch , to carry , carriage – adopted from Old Norman French 56.the appearance of the lexemes : schools, priest, cheese, wine – from French in Late Middle English 57.the main sources of loan-words in Middle English – the most part of Middle…Scandinavian, French, Latin 58.basic reason for the development of… the Scandinavian loan-words into English – the settlement of the Danes and the Norwegians in Anglo- Saxon England 59.historical and social background to the French influence on the English language – after the Norman Conquest 60.the dominant semantic fields of French … before the thirteenth century – government, administration, military, activity 61.shirt/skirt, shatter/scatter, to raise/to rise – they arose … as a result of Scandinavian 62.to catch/to chase, cattle/chattel – borrowing from different dialects of French: Central French, and Norman French 63.what suffixes – suffixes : -ance, -ment , -ous 64. the chronological frames of the less assimilated French – they mainly came… seventeenth-eighteenth 65.the basic reason for the development of the … background to Latin loan- words in the Modern English period – inflow of Latin … by the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution 66.dominant semantic fields of Italian loan-words in the history of English – Finance, military, activity and cookery 67.Spanish loan-words in the history of English – the Great Geographical Discoveries 68.Right explanation for the origin … sciences, the Humanities and technology in Modern English – lexemes… from Latin 69.etymological doublets: strict/strait, feat/fact in English – dialects of French: Central French and Norman French 70.historical and social background to Italian loan-words in the history of English – the age of the Renaissance 71.Latin loan-words in the Old English period – the introduction of Christianity 72.Set of the Modern English lexical units … only of Americanisms – Movies, gasoline, fall, sidewalk. 73.set of… etymologically… only of Spanish loan-words – embargo, tornado 74.set of the Modern English lexical … only of Italian loan-words – soprano, mafia 75.set of Modern English … only of German loan-words – Zinc, semester,blitz,waltz 76.only of Dutch loan-words – landcapes,reef 77.word-formation devices… characterized by the highest level …English – Suffixation 78.development of the English lexis – introduction of Christianity 79.tartan, kilt, dun, crag(rock), in Modern English – borrowing from Celtic 80.conversation … in the history of English – in Late Middle English 81.the most productive in old English – prefixation and suffixation 82.English… considerable in number – Latin and French loan-words 83.The basic reason for a quick assimilation of Scandinavian loan-words in the English language – the Scandinavians was close to the Northern dialects of the English people 84.About Old English native lexemes – fall into Indo-European, Common Germanic , West-Germanic, and English proper 85.Modern English lexical… Indo-European words by origin – blood,mouth,half,hand 86.Spanish loan-words – trade, flora,fauna,natural phenomena 87.Scandinavian loan-words – law,everyday,life,natural,phenomena 88.Modern English lexemes … navigation and shipbuildings – these lexemes were mostly adopted from Dutch 89.the indirect way – Latin and Greek loan-words came into English – through French 90.fields of German loan-words.. of English – Philosohy, specific 91.fields of Dutch loan-words… of Eng. – shipbuildings, nagigation 92.Latin loan-words in Late Middle Eng. And Modern Eng. – natural sciences 93.Dept, doupt, subtle be – the spelling … latinized under the Latin influence 94.adjectives … to the noun son – Filial 95.channel of communication – Greek lexemes 96.French… in Late Modern Eng. – Art and fashions, military, activity 97.Scandinavian lexemes by origin – window, leg, skirt, sky 98.When… was thr French influence on expnasion – after the Norman Conquest in the 11-12 centuries 99.Explanation for the time … Scandinavian loan-words in Eng. – English- period 100.Modern Eng. Lexical… French loan-words… from the Anglo-Norman dialect – cattle, carpenter 101.remarkable feature… Middle Eng. … of the sound system – a growing tendency for dialectal variation 102.burden, much – the Southern dialects 103.phonological result … Great Vowel Shift – phonetically long vowels and diphthongs 104.result of the reduction … Eng. – Changes in the morphological system 105.what … process… was/were – action of a low of rhoticism 106.development of Middle Eng. vowel system – dialectical divercity 107.swallow water.. Modern Eng.- labialization after /w/ 108.spelling … busy – dialectal forms 109.to bury – mixture of West-Southern and Northern dialectal forms 110.fricatives and … Great Vowel Shift 111.phonetic process… system vowels in Modern Eng. – of the Great Vowel Shift 112.why the phonemic opposition open::close appeared in Middle Eng. – as result of some quantitative and qualitative changes of vowels 113.lord, car, ball, tall- vocalization of liquids 114.phonological essence of the Great Vowel Shift – the correlation checked/non-checked 115.one of phonological results of the Great Vowel Shift – long monophthongs increased in number 116.champagne, machine, chief – process of borrowing from French in Middle Eng. 117.discrepancy… Modern Eng. spelling and pronunciation – interaction of different dialectal variant forms 118.dance, grass, grasp, plant – quantitative vowel changes 119.developments of the Old Eng. phoneme /a:/ in Early Middle Eng. - /a:/became rounded and raised in the Northern dialects 120.development of the Modern Eng. phonemes /a:/ and /c:/ - monophthongization … diphthongs and the vocalization … liquid /r/ 121.sociolinguistic factor … sound changes in Early Middle Eng. – decrease in the social function 122.phonemic contrast … in Middle Eng. – contrast voiced /voiceless 123.Modern Eng. assibilation – consonantal clusters with the palatal /j/ in 124.result of the assibilation of Modern Eng. period – a new phoneme /3/ arose 125.dialectal development of the Old Eng. front rounded phonemes – these vowels split into /i/ /i:/ in North, East Midland , /u/ /u:/ 126.most important phonetic process on Middle Eng. that speeded up the ruin of the correlation … of vowel phonemes – the lengthening of vowels 127.to fill, king, bride, to hide – to the West-Midland dialects 128.to murder , rush, to blush – Southern dialects 129.left, evil, ten, yet, need – Kentish dialect 130.guilty , to build, to yield – mixture of Middle Eng. dialectal 131.development of Old Eng. diphthongs in Middle Eng. – diphthongs … were monophthongized 132.result of the development of the Old Eng diphthongs – the rise of new elements 133.system of Middle Eng. diphthongs from different the system of old Eng. diphthongs – differed structurally 134.<ea> … to breathe and breath – quantitative changes in Modern Eng. 135.Doubt, debt, subtle – latinized in Early Modern Eng. 136.To see and sea – sound changes of the Great Vowel Shift 137.Middle Eng. diphthongs /au/,/ou/ in Early Modern Eng. – non-checked phonetically 138.Girl,to turn – checked vowels 139.Phonological result of the established of the correlation voiced/voiceless in the subsystem of fricative phonemes – the number of the forelingual fricative phonemes increased 140.Phonological result of the vocalization of the liquid /r/ in the Modern Eng. – centralized diphthongs 141.Liquid /r/ in the Literary English Language (British Englosh) – eighteenth century 142.Correlation long/short in the consonant phonemic system of English was ruined – ruined in the Old Eng. 143.Vowel phoneme /^/ arose Modern Eng. – in the 17 century in all dialects of English but the Northern dialects 144.nasal sonorant consonant /n/ - in Early Modern Eng. 145.main reason for many changes in Middle Eng. spelling habits - introduction of French spelling habits into the English 146.main reason for the introduction of the letter <o>… sound <u> … to come… love – convenience of reading 147.new… contrast … vocalic system of Middle Eng. – contrast rounded/nonrounded 148.origin of the diphthong /oi/ in Middle Eng. – French sound system 149.sounds … affected and subjected to different … in evolution… sound system - in the accented syllables 150.origin of diphthongs in Middle Eng. – phonetic process of vocalization of palatal and velar fricatives