History of the English Language

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Across
  1. 3. Which foreign language was the language of religious and learned texts in the Old English Period?
  2. 7. The first dictionary of the English language published in 1604 by Robert Cawdery was entitled ...
  3. 10. Which ME autor's literary form had a stabilising effect on language standard in the 15th c.
  4. 12. What weakened England’s religious and political bonds with Catholic Europe in the 1530s?
  5. 13. Due to its highly inflectional morpho-syntax Old English was what kind of a Language?
  6. 15. Due to the loss of most of its inflectional system Modern English has become what kind of a Language?
  7. 16. Most loanwords adopted by the middle of the 13th century are of which French variety?
Down
  1. 1. The West Saxon dialect represented the first standardized form of written English, denoted as the which standard?
  2. 2. The north-eastern area retained by the Danes by the end of the 9th c.
  3. 4. The political and cultural centre moved from Winchester to London, where after 1400 a new standard started taking shape, denoted as which standard?
  4. 5. When Anglo-Saxons arrived in Britain, the country was inhabited by Celtic peoples called ...
  5. 6. the rich inflectional system of Old English was strongly simplified due to the reduction of what kind of syllables?
  6. 8. Anglo-Saxons established seven kingdoms, referred to as ...
  7. 9. Which foreign language was the language of of law, administration, and literature?
  8. 10. Who introduced the printing into England?
  9. 11. The war of the two rival dynasties in the Early Middle English period is called 'the war of the ...?
  10. 14. The term Old English does not denote/was not what kind of language?