What can you say about peculiar features of Germanic languages?
1. Germanic has a number of unique words: there are no similar words in other Indo-European languages.
2. The stress in Germanic languages fell on the first syllable (except prefixes), while in IE stress was free.
3. Germanic developed a preterite tense (called weak or regular) with a dental suffix, -d or -t (e.g. fish, fished, etc.). Germanic languages thus have two types of verbs, weak (regular) and strong (irregular).
4. Germanic developed weak and strong adjectives. The weak declension was used when the modified noun was preceded by another word which indicated case, number, and gender. The strong declension was used in other situations.
What do you know about OE alphabet system?
The Old English Latin alphabet generally consisted of about 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Of these letters, most were directly adopted from the Latin alphabet, two were modified Latin letters (Æ, Ð), and two developed from the runic alphabet (Ƿ, Þ).
What can you say about the Runic alphabet?
Runes can be written from both the left and the right, and each letter is associated with a phoneme, or sound. The letters all have names, usually starting with the phoneme they're associated with. The letters, their names, and the sounds they make vary between forms of the runic alphabet.
What can you say about monuments of OE?
What do you know about factors of language changes?
Indeed, several factors contribute to language change, invented words, borrowing, new technologies, trades and migration often occurring in response to social, economic and political pressures if enough users alter the way the language should be spoken
Speak about Preterite-Present verbs having a peculiar place within the system of OE
In OE there were 12 preterite-present verbs.
These verbs have a peculiar formation of basic stems and forms. Their Present Tense corresponds to the Past of strong verbs while their Past is derived from the Past weak verbs. Thus, the Present Tense sg. of the verb “witan” (знать) is “wāt” while its Past is “wiste, wisse”.
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