Week 1, Lesson 1: History of the English Language

Question 1

This is a word that has been introduced at some time from another language, from either a related or unrelated language.

Answer 1

Loan word or Borrowed word

Question 2

This is a word that has been part of a language from the beginning as a discrete language.

Answer 2

Native word

Question 3

These are words belonging to the members of a language family.

Answer 3

Cognate word

Question 4

A type of language in which inseparable inflections are fused with lexical terms to carry much of the grammatical information.

Answer 4

Inflectional language

Question 5

A type of synthetic language with a morphology that primarily uses agglutination.

Answer 5

Agglutinative language

Question 6

This is a language in which every morpheme forms a separate word, and individual particles such as prepositions, articles, and conjunctions are used to convey grammatical information.

Answer 6

Isolating language

Question 7

These are languages in which whole component parts are from distinct language families. The vocabulary from one language and the grammatical system from another language are combined.

Answer 7

Mixed Type