INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH (BBI 3101) Final Exam pointers

Material to be tested A History of the English Language Chapters 8 (pp. 195-245) Chapters 10-12 (pp. 289-406)

Terms and definitions Inkhorn terms Coinage Chaucerism Register Creole Pidgin Accent Kachru’s model

The Renaissance 1500-1650 Pronunciation: Vowel shift Vocabulary: number of words borrowed, changes to idioms Grammar: some conservative changes The problems faced during standardization

The Renaissance 1500-1650 Different scholars’ views toward the process of standardizing the English language with important scholars’ names and works Important dictionaries, their authors’ names, their titles and years of publication English scholar with the widest vocabulary range Significance of time Significance of printing press

The 19th and 20th Centuries Ways in which new words were introduced into the English languages Ways in which words commonly change their meanings Names of the important corpora and their significance BBC Oxford Dictionary

Other Chapters Varieties of the English language worldwide Distinctive features of American English Major figures in the development of American English

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