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23 Cards in this Set
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Infinitive |
Non-finite form a verb, usually formed with another word in front of it such as "to" in Modern English - Not limited in time |
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Syncope |
The loss of a medial vowel in the pronunciation of a word |
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Bede |
One of the first English writers, wrote the poem Caedmon's Hymn or The Ecclesiastical History of the English People |
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Caedmon |
Main character in Caedmon's hymn, gets drunk and can't sing, falls asleep in a barn, an angel comes to him and Caedmon recites in a song all what the angel told him about God |
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Alliteration |
Two words that start with the same letter are used in a sentence following each other |
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Apposition |
Two elements that are placed side by side with one element serving to identify the other in a different way |
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Analogy |
One form becomes like another form it is closely associated with, removes irregularities in the language - Morphological and syntactic change |
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Grammaticalization |
A lexical word (dictionary word) becomes a grammatical marker, inflection, or phrasal element to mark a future action - Morphological and syntactic change |
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Pejoration |
When a word's meaning degrades ie. when it once meant something positive, it now means something negative - Semantic change |
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Amelioration |
Opp. of pejoration, when a words meaning is upgraded to mean something positive instead of something negative - Semantic change |
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Proto-Germanic |
Mother language of all Germanic languages that stems from Indo- European (West - High and low, East, North) |
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Mood |
Indication of whether an action is viewed as non-factual or factual |
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Case |
Indication of the grammatical role of the noun in a given sentence |
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Umlaut (I mutation) |
i in the suffix that is affecting the vowel proceeding it, the original "i" causes the vowel in the preceding syllable to be fronted or raised such as gosi--> ges and the "i" drops off
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Borrowing |
Lexical word that is taken from another language and is unchanged |
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Inflection |
Affix expressing the grammatical categories of the word |
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Alliterative metre |
Metre in poetry that is formed by each line starting with a word that begins with the same letter |
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Ligature |
When two letters/ symbols are linked together to form one new symbol Ex. ash ae |
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Ash |
AE ex. mat, front low vowel |
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Thorn |
Ip (lower case b and p together) ex. Ipa "that" or Ipes "these" |
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Eth |
d\ (d with a cross on top) voiced interdental fricative, (opposite of theta) |
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Weak Verbs |
Form their preterites using a dental suffix or adds a demonstrative nominative ex. that or those |
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Strong Verbs |
Forms its tense by ablaut or vowel gradation ex. sing, sang, sung (change of vowel in related words) - Isn't dependent on a preceding word |
