Reconstructing the Pre-History of English: The First Consonant Shift

  • Due Sep 18, 2020 at 11:59pm
  • Points 16
  • Questions 16
  • Available Sep 9, 2020 at 12am - Sep 25, 2020 at 11:59pm
  • Time Limit None
  • Allowed Attempts Unlimited

Instructions

Before you begin this quiz, make sure that you have read the chapter on Reconstructing the Pre-History of English and that you have watched these three (very funny) videos about the first consonant shift and the early history of Germanic Philology (one of the precursors to contemporary linguistics). Professor Ari Hoptman at the University of Minnesota is responsible for these gems:

Verner's Law, Part One

Verner's Law, Part Two (and that isn't Karl Verner--the real Verner has been dead forever)

Verner's Law, Part Three

[Please note that I've used the YouTube links for these videos because there was no way for me to bring the videos into Canvas with captions otherwise. These videos use YouTube's automatically generated captions, so I can't guarantee that they are exactly correct.]

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