Many of the most basic terms in the English language originate from O English.

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Many of the most basic terms in the English language originate from Middle English.

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​The study of ongoing changes that languages have undergone is sometimes called historical and c linguistics.

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The division of English language into the periods of Old English, Middle English and Modern English is nonconventional and not arbitrary.

During the Renaissance, many of （ ）words became part of the educated English lexicon.

The word "edit" is created by means of（ ）

New words may be formed from existing words by the removal of a suffix thought to be part of the old word. Such a process is called（ ）, e. g. , caretake from caretaker.

The following topics fall into the scope of historical linguistics EXCEPT（ ）.

Prior to the sixteenth century,the sentence “ You can stay, stay not you.” is grammatical, but it changes into "You can stay, can't you? " in Modern English, which illustrates the phenomenon of （）

Sound changes may include the loss of a sound or sounds. The so-called apocope refers to the omission of a vowel segment（ ）

In Old English, word order was freer because the case endings were rich. So in Old English, word orders included SVO, VSO, SOV and OSV. However, Modern English has a much weaker case system, so its sentences have to follow a basic word order of（ ）

Old English had a rich case-ending system, e.g. , Old English noun had four cases, i.e., nominative, genetive, dative and（ ）

Abbreviations of longer words or phrases may become lexicalized, for example, gym for gymnasium. This process is sometimes called（ ）

In general, linguistic change in the （ ）system and the vocabulary of a language is more noticeable than that in other systems of the grammar. 

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​The Anglo-Saxons were migrants from the northern parts of Europe, so the words that they originally used and the words that the English vocabulary has later taken in from other languages are regarded as loan words.

Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false on the ANSWER SHEET for each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and then give the correct version.

While Middle English resembles Old English to a great degree, it looks very different from Modern English. 

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Syntactically, the verb of a sentence in Old English precedes, rather than follows, the subject.

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London dialect began to be regarded as a standard national language even in the Old English period and remained so when English developed into its modem variety.

The first and most widely investigated language family of the world is （ ）.

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Grimm’s Law