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Seminar 2 Hel: 1/1 Suppletion

The document provides information about various grammatical aspects of Old English, including: 1) Adjectives were declined by suffixation, suppletion, or vowel interchange. Verbs were divided into strong and weak classes. 2) Nouns declined based on gender, number, and case. Adjectives agreed with nouns in these features. 3) Old English had a synthetic grammar with inflectional morphology and flexible word order. It included several grammatical categories no longer present in Modern English.

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Seminar 2 Hel: 1/1 Suppletion

The document provides information about various grammatical aspects of Old English, including: 1) Adjectives were declined by suffixation, suppletion, or vowel interchange. Verbs were divided into strong and weak classes. 2) Nouns declined based on gender, number, and case. Adjectives agreed with nouns in these features. 3) Old English had a synthetic grammar with inflectional morphology and flexible word order. It included several grammatical categories no longer present in Modern English.

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Seminar 2 Hel

The adjectival forms yfel - wiersa-wierest / fear - fierra- fierrest, fyrrest are formed by *
1/1
suffixation
suppletion
 
vowel interchange
analytical change

 
OE nemman, w. v.1 means *
1/1
weak verb, 1st type of conjugation
weak verb, class 1
 
weak verb, group 1

 
OE verbs were divided into ... *
1/1
strong
weak
strong and weak
 
no special division

 
Genitive case singular had ..... for all stems *
1/1
identical terminations
different terminations
 
 
In OE Noun phrase, noun modifiers agreed with the nouns in ....... *
1/1
gender
number
case
gender, number and case
 
 
OE verb beon/wesan had .... forms *
1/1
6
7
8
 
9

 
The weak form of OE Adjective declension was employed .... *
1/1
the adjective was in comparative degree
under the presence of noun determiner
the adjective was preceded by a demonstrative pronoun
 
 
Old English is considered to be a ... *
1/1
an analytic type of language
a synthetic type of language
 
an analytico-synthetic type of language

 
OE article included: *
1/1
definite article
indefinite article
definite and indefinite article
no article
 
 
OE Prepositions and conjuctions were divided into: *
0/1
strong and weak
 
primary and secondary *
relative and fixed
primary and weak

 
While declining an OE noun, one has to pay attention to : *
1/1
gender. root, case, stem
stem, gender,
 
case, gender
root and stem

 
OE personal pronouns were declined according to: *
1/1
root, case and gender
number, case, gender
 
number, root and case

 
Which of the verbs is strong? *
1/1
habban – hæfde – hæfd
scacan – scoc – scocon – scacenc
 
locian – locoed – locod

 
In OE cearu, n.f.o. means.. *
1/1
noun, feminin, o-root
noun, feminin, o-stem
 
noun, feminin, zero root
noun, feminin, zero stem

 
The morphological chain healdan - heold - heldon - healden indicates: *
1/1
past form - infinitive - participle I - participle II
infinitive- past singular - past plural - past participle
 
infinitive - past singular - participle I - past plural
past participle -infinitive - past - participle II

 
Which of the two adjective declension types expressed the idea of definiteness? *
1/1
weak
 
strong

 
The morphological chain fremman - fremede -gefremed indicates: *
1/1
past form - infinitive - participle I
infinitive - past - participle I
infinitive - past - participle II
 
 
Where is the example of a noun's root-stem? *
1/1
sunu-suna
nama-naman
fot-fet
 
 
The first letter in OE sentence was written with... *
1/1
capital letter
no capital/lowercase distinction
lowercase
 
 
OE drifan, s.v.1 means.... *
1/1
strong verb, class 1
 
strong verb, group 1
strong verb, 1st type of conjugation

 
Old English grammar included the same number of grammar categories comparing to
Middle English *
1/1
yes
no
 
 
The principle of formation of the past tense for strong verbs was based on: *
1/1
vowel gradation
 
addition of termination - de
vowel gradation + termination de

 
OE questions were formed using the formula *
1/1
SVO
VSO
 
OVS
Auxiliary VSO

 
How many classes of OE weak verbs do you know?. *
1/1
3
 
5
7
8

 
Which part of speech had five cases in Old English? *
1/1
noun
adjective
 
article
verb

 
OE adverbs were formed from adjectives using.... *
1/1
prefix ge-
suffix - lic/-lice
 
suffix ly/lic

 
OE adverbs fell into ........... classes: *
1/1
2
 
3
4
5

 
OE adjectives had .... genders *
1/1
1
2
3
 
4
no genders

 
OE adjectives had ..... types of declension *
1/1
1
2
 
3
no specification in declension

 
Old English Nouns were divided into: *
1/1
strong and weak
 
strong, weak and neutral
neutral, dual and weak
 
OE negative form was expressed by .... *
1/1
the negative particle NE which precedes the finite verb
 
the negative particle NOT which precedes the finite verb
negative particle NE which precedes non-finite verb
negative particle NAT which follows auxilliary verbs

 
In order to indicate a pause OE syntax used... *
1/1
pause
semicolon
inverted semicolon/ punctus elevatus
pause, semicolon and punctus elevatus
 
 
There were the following classes of OE pronouns : *
1/1
personal, relative, possessive, indefinite, demonstrative
personal, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite
 
demonstrative, reflexive, interrogative, indefinite,
interrogative, personal, reflexive, indefinite

 
Old English Nouns were declined according to : *
1/1
3 cases
4 cases
 
5 cases
6 cases

 
OE strong verbs indicated tenses by?. *
1/1
addition of a suffix
change of the quantity of the root vowel
change of the quality of the root vowel
 
prefixation

 
Which tense did not exist on Old English? *
1/1
past
present
future
 
 
The word order in OE was .... *
1/1
fixed
free
relatively free
 
relatively fixed

 
Old English Nouns were declined according to : *
1/1
gender
root-divison
stem-division
 
type of declension

 
OE preterite – present verbs survived in modern English as *
1/1
regular verbs
irregular verbs
modal verbs
 
auxilliary verbs

 
The syntax of OE sentence was *
1/1
complex
simple
 
syntax depended on the message of the utterance

 
How many classes of OE strong verbs do you know?. *
1/1
3
5
7
 
8

 
Which means of forming degrees of comparison DID NOT exist in Old English *
0/1
suffixation
suppletion

vowel interchange
analytical change

 
OE preterite – present verbs represent ... *
1/1
past in form and present in meaning
 
present in form and past in meaning
present both in form and meaning but used in past tense

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