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453 Chapter 4. Before there was English…. Food for Thought. Consider and explain… Chinese: ma = ma = Mother German: bam = bong = bell’s sound French: fille = filly = girl Bantu: nguba = goober = peanut Russian: brat = brother = brother Why are there so many similarities?.
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453 Chapter 4 Before there was English…
Food for Thought • Consider and explain… • Chinese: ma = ma = Mother • German: bam = bong = bell’s sound • French: fille = filly = girl • Bantu: nguba = goober = peanut • Russian: brat = brother = brother • Why are there so many similarities?
Food 4 Thot 2 • To what extent can we explain why languages change? Consider: • Time • Geography • Social factors
Indo-European • AKA: Proto Indo-European • 3,000 - 4,000 BC • Farming culture • Religious • Elaborate burial sites • ~ Northern Europe // Southern Russia • Sir William Jones
Language Family • Mother – Daughter • Families – Family Trees • BUT: • Birth • Intentional branching • Death (?)
Language Classifications • Isolating • Agglutinative • Incorporative • Inflective OR • Genetic
Reconstruction • Best guess based on comparative study • Marked by * • *kmtom “hundred”
Cognates • Similar in form • Similar in menaing IE Latin Greek Old Eng T.Eng *bher- fer- pher- ber- bear
Inflections • Nominative: I saw a cookie • Vocative: Sally, give me a cookie • Accusative: She gave me a cookie • Genitive: It’s now my cookie • Dative: She gave me a cookie • Ablative: I should avoid cookies • Locative: I should put them away • Instrumental: I eat with my hands
Word Order • Greenberg • Lehmann • VO … OV
I-E Germanic • New words • Loss of inflection (not pres/past) • Dental suffix • Adjectival declension • First syllable stress • Vowels o α // ᾱ ō • Consonants Grimm’s Law
Grimm’s Law • bh b • dh d • gh g • p f • t Ө • k h • b p • d t • g k
Verner’s Law • Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives • Become voiced • In voiced environment • Except • Word initial • Adjacent to voiceless sound • I-E stress on first syllable
Exercises • 4.2 • 4.8 • 4.9 • 4.11 – Part of each • 4.12 • 4.14