What were the first attempts to standardize English grammar?
1762 - Robert Lowth: "A Short Introduction to English Grammar"; 1761 - Joseph Priestley: "The Rudiments of English Grammar", etc.
What did American revolution lead to, in regard to the development of the English language?
territorial segregation and dialectal differentiation
Which types of word-building have become popular in the Late Modern English period?
Contraction, reversion, blending
What were two main directions in the Enlightenment and their representatives?
Moderate (Rene Descartes, John Locke, Immanuel Kant) and radical (Benedict de Spinoza)
Which effect did the first industrial revolution have on the society?
Growing standards of living, urbanization, increase in literacy rate
Which historical event resulted in borrowing words from such languages as Hindi, Maori, etc.?
Colonization by the British Empire
Where did the expression "Boston tea party" originate from?
1773 - protest of Americans against British taxation law (destroying tea of British)
What led to the Civil War in the US?
Slave Trade
Which accent of American English is considered to be the standard one?
General American
Which grammatical approach became popular in the XIX century?
Classical scientific approach
In which dialect is omission of subjects in relative clauses popular?
Cockney
Which mood of verbs lost all the endings in the Late Modern English?
Subjunctive
Who was the first to systematize the origin of words in a dictionary?
Nathan Bailey
What was the reason for "dictionary wars" between Noah Webster and Joseph Worcester?
plagiarism of Joseph Worcester
What were Thomas Sheridan and John Walker famous for?
publishing dictionaries and grammar books with critical notes
Why was the grammatical approach popular in the XVIII century called "prescriptive"?
Because the aim was to fix the "correct" grammatical rules
