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History of English - W03 Flashcards

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Methods of Classifying Languages

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  • Word Order Typology
  • Morphological Typology
  • Genetic Typologies
  • Motion Verb Typologies
  • Tone / Stress Typologies
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Classifyng Languages (focus)

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  • Morphological
  • Genetic
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Word Order Typology

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SVO

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Motion Verb Typology

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He swims across the river

Il traverse la rivière à la nage

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Tone/Stress Typology

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  • Modern French Always Stress Final Syllable
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Pure Language

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  • No Such Thing
  • All languages are Mixed or Unconscious
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Definition (Morphological Classification)

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  • Structural Similarities (Based)
  • Universal Features (Based)
  • Types of Morpheme
  • Word-Formation System
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Word-Formation Systems (Morphological Class.)

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  • Inflectional
  • Agglutinative
  • Isolating
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Inflectional (Morphological Class - Word-Formation System)

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  • Inseparable inflections Fused with Lexical Stems
  • Word Ending with Lexical Stems
    (e. g. love + d, s, ing)
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Agglutinative (Morpho. Class. - Word Formation System)

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  • Affixes added to Lexical Stems (little change)
  • Transparent Arrangement
    (e. g. daKatzar - Basque ‘I Bring Them)
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Isolating (Morpho. Class. - Word Formation System)

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  • Opposite of Agglutiative
  • Every Morpheme is a Seperate Word
  • Monosyllabic
  • No affixes
  • No Inflection
  • Grammatical info = articles, prep., conjonction.
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English Typological Classification

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Mixture of 3

  • Inflectional
  • Agglutinative
  • Isolating
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English as

Inflectional Language

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the morpheme -S- coombines 4 types of Grammatical Info.

  • Singular
  • Plural
  • Indicative
  • Third Person
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English as

Agglutinative

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Meaning of Derivational Morphemes Transparent

e. g. un- = not
- ly = adjectival
- ness = abstract noun

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English as

isolating

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  • Elements = Seperate Words
  • Word Order relatively Rigid
    e. g. articles, prep., neg. words, will
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Genetic classification is a theory of….

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Common Origin

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Genetic Classification

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Observed Resemblances bw Languages

Languages = Laws of Evolution – Common Ancestor

  • languages displaying systematic differences must descend from a common source
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18
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Which Morphological Classification Type is Synthetic

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Agglutinative

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Which Morphological Classification Type is Analytic

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Isolating

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20
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Built Comparatives (definition)

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Word Built for comparison

e.g. - More Important, - Bigger

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Built Comparatives

  • Analytic (EXEMPLE)
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More important

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Built Comparatives

  • Synthetic (EXEMPLE)
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Bigger

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23
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Polysynthetic

(What to know)

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Not in European Languages

24
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Recognized Language families

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One Hundred to Several Hundreds

  • IE, Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Afroasiatic
25
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In Europe, most languages are related and belong to the

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IE family

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Language Isolates

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Languages No idea Where they Come from

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prehistoric language

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  • No written records
    e. g. proto-germanic (while latin sometimes written)
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Early form of languages

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  • Proto-Language

(Educated Guesses)

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Proto-Language

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  • Early Form of Language
  • Educated Guesses
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Evolution Theory (first appearance)

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  • 19th Century
  • Philologist
31
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  • IE Family (Division)
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10 (11) Groups

2 Categories (Satem/Centum)

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Satem/Centum Classification

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Based on initial sound in the word for ‘hundred’

33
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Easternmost IE Language

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Tocharian (Centum)

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Satem/Centum Language (Location)

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Satem = East (except Tocharian)

Centum = West

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Centum Languages

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  • Italic
  • Germanic
  • Celtic
  • Greek
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Genetic Class. comes from

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  • Cognates (Shared Similarities)
  • NOT borrowed
37
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Pater/père/father/vater

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  • Cognates
  • Non are borrowed from other Languages
38
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(Fr) Royale vs. (Eng) Royal

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Not Cognates

  • Royal Borrowed from French
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Uralic Family (location)

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now Central-Russia

40
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Uralic Family

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Non Indo-European Lang.

e.g. Sami, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian

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IE Alphabets

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  • Latin
  • Greek
  • Cyrillic (Russian)

Alphabets NOT Related to Lang. Origins

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Russian Alphabet

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Cyrillic

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Semitic

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maltese

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Basque

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(N-Spain, N-France)

  • Not indo-european
  • Not Related to other Languages (Language Isolate)
45
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sanskrit

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Proto-IE

46
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First Language of French (Before Latin)

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Gaulish (Celtic Family)

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One of First Distinction W/E Europe

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Satum/Centum

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Earliest Greek Records (dates)

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1500 B.C.

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Sir William-Jones (date)

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1786

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IE Homeland

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Mesopotamia - Garden of Eden (Early Hypothesis)

Now - Central Europe (Cen. Russia)

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IE spoken (When/Who)

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  • 5000-3000 BC
  • Late Stone Age People (semi-nomadic)
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IE people knowledge

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  • Domesticated Animals
  • Primitive Agriculture
  • Developped Religion
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IE People Migration (begin date)

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  • Extensive Mig. began after 3000 B.C.
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IE People Mig.

Last Groups to Leave their Original Homeland

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  • Germanic
  • Balto-Slavic
  • Celtic
55
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Languages of Particular Interest

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  • Celtic Languages (French + British)
  • Germanic Languages
  • Italic
56
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Germanic Languages

(Include)

A

OE

ME

PDE

57
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Italic Languages (include)

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French

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