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Revision of key terms and ideas on language change
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1
What is 'football' an example of?
Coinage
Blending
Affixation
Compounding
2
Which of these factors contributed to a wider lexicon in the 18th and 19th centuries?
Shakespeare writing plays and sonnets
Growth of the mass media
Introduction of religion to Britain
Development of science and industry
3
Neosemy is what?
The process of lexical change
Where words can have different spellings and meanings
Where punctuation is used less frequently
Where words are used in different ways and gain new meanings
4
What factors are currently affecting language change in the 21st century?
Social media
Educational reforms
Non-standard spellings
Americanisms
5
Synchronic variation is when we study language change...
through gender over four generations
via social media platforms
across society at a particular point in time
across regions
6
Which of these is NOT an eponym?
Andrex
Hoover
Chanel
Dyson
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Coinage is...
the deliberate creation of a new word
shortening a word and the shortened version becomes standard
changing a word from a noun to a verb
using a word from another language
8
French was the official language of England for how many years?
300
350
400
250
9
What is 'exam' an example of?
Initialism
Blending
Compounding
Clipping
10
Which of these are NOT to do with Middle English?
Latin words entering the language
The Great Vowel Shift
Grammar simplification
First dictionary published
11
What is the term for a group of people who believe that language should remain pure?
Ascriptivist
Descriptivist
Scriptivist
Prescriptivist
12
Amelioration is what?
A word's meaning changes over time but the change is neutral
A word acquires a more pleasant or positive meaning
A word's meaning never changes
A word acquires a less pleasant or negative meaning
13
The process of language change moving through old, middle to modern English is known as what?
Lexical change
Semantic change
Synchronic variation
Diachronic Variation
14
William Caxton's printing press came to England in which year?
1376
1276
1176
1476
15
What is 'hammer' an example of?
Conversion
Back formation
Compounding
Clipping
16
Silent letters have been inserted into words because...
originally the word was pronounced with that sound
it would remind people of the original Latin spelling
there was no dictionary at the time
it would ensure reading and writing was only for the elite
17
An example of an acronym is...
OMG
TBT
FOMO
DVD
18
When over time a word becomes
less
favourable, this process is known as what?
Amelioration
Sociolect
Neosemy
Pejoration
19
Which word is NOT Anglo-Saxon in origin?
Dark
Trek
Town
Evil
20
The first dictionary was published in which year?
1760
1755
1750
1745
