Przykładowe zagadnienia na egzamin z Historii Języka Angielskiego

Wyjaśnij dlaczego następujące osoby są ważne w studiach języków indo-europejskich, w tym jez. angielskiego:

 Sir William Jones

 Jacob Grimm
 Karl Verner
 Alfred the Great
 Bede

Zdefiniuj następujące terminy:

 lingua franca
 Proto-Germanic
 Paleolithic Age
 Neolithic Age
 Grimm’s law
 The Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy
 Continental vowels
 voiced aspirates

Rozważ/ Odpowiedz na pytania:

 Why is English so widely used as the second language?

 What is Sanskrit? Why is it important in the reconstruction of Indo-European?
 Who were the first people on the British Isles about whose language we have definite knowledge?
 When and why did Romans conquer Britain? When and why did they withdraw?
 Where were the homes of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes?
 What accounts for the difference between the influence of Celtic and that of Latin upon the English
language?
 What do we understand by the Latin influence of the zero period, of the first period, and of the second
period?
 To which branch of Germanic does English belong?
 What are the four dialects of Old English?

Sample tasks:

1. Which of the following is not true?

a. Sanskrit, the language of ancient India, is one of Indo-European languages
b. Sanskrit preserves features of the common language of the Indo-European group, much older than
most of those of Greek or Latin or German
c. Sanskrit is the common ancestor language of the Indo-European group of languages
d. An unusually full system of declensions and conjugations of Sanskrit allows to be traced to a
common origin of the Indo-European languages

2. Indicate whether the italicized fricatives in the OE words below are voiced or voiceless:

bōsm …………………………..

3. Write the symbol of the vowel sound in the words below:

cwēn ‘queen’ …………………

4. Mark the patterns of stress in the following words, using / for main stress , \ for secondary stress, and X for
week stress Prefixes and elements of compound words are set apart by hyphens.

ā-hebban ‘to lift up’