EME

Question 1

Why did they need new words?

What affected the lexis/ semantics?

Answer 1

new concepts, techniques & inventions needed new words > mostly borrowed Latin & Greek

Question 2

Grammar

Answer 2

• conversions from noun > verb
• compounding popular
• is/has shifts

Question 3

What 3 basic punctuation marks were used?

Answer 3

1. punctus (comma, full-stop, brackets)
2. colon
3. virgule (slash)

Question 4

What did the function of grammar move from and to?

Answer 4

rhetorical to grammatical function

Question 5

What inflections were there?

Answer 5

2nd & 3rd person

Question 6

In grammar which 2 things became acceptable?

Answer 6

Double negative and double comparison

Question 7

Which auxillary verb was used to form questions?

Answer 7

Do (e.g. does, do you, don’t)

Question 8

What happened to sentences by 1600?

Answer 8

complexity increased

Question 9

What did Caxton et al use?

Answer 9

loose, linear sentences
limited subordination

Question 10

What gradually disasppears?

Answer 10

ye/you

Question 11

By 1500 what punctuation had started to be used?

Answer 11

! and ;

Question 12

By 1600s what punctuation did most printers use?

Answer 12

• full stops
• commas
• Q marks
• semi colons
• quotation marks
• parantheses

Question 13

Extra bits on phonology

Answer 13

• distinction in foot-strut vowel emerges
• 1600s: /zj/ emerges in words like measure, occasion

Question 14

What did John Wallis note in 1653?
And what did this result in?

Phonology

Answer 14

difference between -n & -ng
-g no longer sounded separately

Question 15

What was lost and what was retained in graphology?

Answer 15

• lost = thorn grapheme
• retained = long S

Question 16

What did John Hart do in the 1550s for graphology?

Answer 16

capitalisation of proper nouns & starts of sentences > titles, personification, emphasis, importance

Question 17

Orthography

Answer 17

• terminal -e
• (i/y/j) interchangable
• double letters
• late 1500s: Mulcaster’s ‘Elementarie’ hastens growth of regularisation
• 1650s: separation of spoken & written forms

Question 18

What was declining in 1630?

Orthography

Answer 18

U/V interchangability

Question 19

What did John Hart try to do in 1551?

Orthography

Answer 19

reform chaotic spelling

Question 20

Pragmatics

Answer 20

1611: King James bible used more conservative style to oreserve ‘dignity’ - choice of popular & traditional lang. now available

Question 21

What year was the printing press created?
And why was it significant?

Answer 21

1476
standardisation accelerates

Question 22

When?

Answer 22

1500-1700