Lerer, Introduction

Question 1

What does philology means?

Answer 1

Love of languages but it also connotes the discipline of historical linguistic studies

Question 2

What is language?

Answer 2

Form of social behavior central to our past and present lives

Question 3

English spelling is _______ and ________

Answer 3

historical (bc it preserves the older forms) and etymological (preserves the earlier forms of words)

Question 4

What are the periods in which we can categorize English?

Answer 4

Old, Middle and Modern English

Question 5

The change in the pronunciation of English long vowels caused by the new contacts of different Dialect groups

Answer 5

The Great Vowel Shift

Question 6

Words that share a common origin

Answer 6

Cognates

Question 7

System that the early Germanic people developed for in scribing names and short texts on wood, bone or stone

Answer 7

Runic writing

Question 8

Who wrote the earliest texts in Old English?

Answer 8

Scribes who learned the Roman alphabet in monasteries

Question 9

Where do the first examples of Old English come from?

Answer 9

When singers sang accompanied by harps and scribes started to write their line in the Latin alphabet