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History of English - Ex. 3 Flashcards

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Synthetic languages (def.)

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(Inflectional + Isolating)

  • Grammatical relationships through modifications to the forms of words
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Synthetic Languages (examples of variations)

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  • Verb inflections (conjugations)
  • Noun declensions
  • Preposition use
  • Strict word order.
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Synthetic (Example of Languages)

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  • Greek
  • Latin
  • English
  • French
  • Russian
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Polysynthetic Languages (def.)

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(Highly agglutinative)

  • express same information through multiple, simultaneous modifications to the forms of words.
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Polysynthetic (Examples of Word Modifications)

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  • Suffixes
  • Prefixes and/or Infixes.
  • Word order looser
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Polysynthetic (Example of Languages)

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Eskimo-Aleut languages such as Inuktitut

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Finnish, Estonian, Lapp (Sami), Hungarian and Basque

  • Common Character
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Languages spoken in Europe but not in IE language family

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Languages spoken in Europe but not of the IE language family

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  • Finnish
  • Estonian
  • Lapp (Sami)
  • Hungarian
  • Basque
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Family of non-IE Languages (give 3 examples)

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  • Uralic
  • Iroquois
  • Eskimo-Aleut
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Satem vs. Centum

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  • Satem = Eastern + (w: Tokharian + Anatolian)
  • Centum = Western

N.B. Cognates (initial sound - means hundred)

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Satem = Centum ?

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Cognates (same source traced w/ initial sound - means hundred)

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Oldest IE Language (why do we know)

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  • Vedic Sanskrit
  • Oldest Surviving Written Records
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The existing spoken language that most resembles PIE

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Lithuanian

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Lithuanian (what is special)

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The existing spoken language that most resembles PIE.

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What groups are Germanic languages divided into?

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  • East (high/low)
  • West
  • North (eastern/western)
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English (family tree)

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  • IE
  • Germanic
  • West
  • Anglo-Frisian
  • OE, ME, English
17
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The most important East Germanic language

(why?)

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Ghotic

  • dead language but most extensively recorder
  • written form preserved (Bible translation)
18
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What language of the North Germanic family is the most ancient?

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  • The Western branch (Icelandic)
19
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The Western branch = Icelandic

(Greatest literary achievements)

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  • Prose sagas
  • Heroic poetry
20
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Why is Frisian interesting to students of the history of English?

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  • Close linguistic relationship to ME.

Some scholars identify: Anglo-Frisian subgroup of Low German.

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