History of english review questions and answers 2016
the Proto-Indo-European language. It has significantly influenced modern Indo-European
languages. An example of ablaut in English is the strong verb sing, sang, sung and its related
noun song.
The term ablaut (German for "off-sound") was coined in the early nineteenth century by
linguist Jacob Grimm. However, the phenomenon itself was first recorded more than 2000 years
earlier by the Sanskrit grammarians and was codified by Pn ini in his Ashtadhyayi, where the
terms gun a and vr ddhiwere used to describe the phenomena now known respectively as thefull
grade and lengthened grade. In the context of European languages, the phenomenon was first
described in the early 18th century by the Dutch linguist Lambert ten Kate
STRONG VERBS:
With the exception of some (mostly high frequency) irregular or anomalous verbs, Old English
verbs belong to one of two main groupings: strong verbs and weak verbs.
The strong verbs realize differences of tense by variation in the stem vowel
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