The midterms are a combination of T/F; multiple choice; fill in the blank; parsing; and possibly matching and short answers.
Words in English
word stock, vocabulary nativized, nativization
size of English vocabulary loanword, borrowing
word elements = morphemes doublets
word structure synonyms, synonymy
study of word structure = morphology homonyms, homonymy
stylistic choices polysemy
formal vs. informal prescriptivism
genre choices standard, nonstandard (variety or form)
technical vs. non-technical language change
writing vs. speech related languages
native parse
borrowed gloss
History of English
Old English = Anglo-Saxon (lg.) Harold Godwinson Middle English Battle of Hastings, 1066 Early Modern English Norman conquest Present Day English (PDE) Normans Celts (Britons) William of Normandy (William the Conqueror) Romans Domesday Book Anglo-Saxons Norman French Beowulf Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales King Alfred (Alfred the Great) William Caxton, printing press Vikings, Danes Great English Vowel Shift Canute (Cnut) King James Bible Danelaw Shakespeare Watling Street colonialism Ethelred the Unready standardization (of language, of spelling) Edward the Confessor Noah Webster Other ideas and things to know: general concept: layers of loanwords examples of loanwords from various languages typical forms of loanwords from various languages approximate dates of the periods of the English language
Morphology
word
simplex word filler, linker morpheme
complex word inflection
syllable derivation, derivations
morpheme (= morph) compounding, compounds
'smallest unit of meaning/function' acronym
root back formation
affix zero-derivation (= conversion)
prefix blending, blends
suffix clipping, clippings
parse, parsing folk etymology
reanalysis
analogy