History of English - W03 Flashcards
Methods of Classifying Languages
- Word Order Typology
- Morphological Typology
- Genetic Typologies
- Motion Verb Typologies
- Tone / Stress Typologies
Classifyng Languages (focus)
- Morphological
- Genetic
Word Order Typology
SVO
Motion Verb Typology
He swims across the river
Il traverse la rivière à la nage
Tone/Stress Typology
- Modern French Always Stress Final Syllable
Pure Language
- No Such Thing
- All languages are Mixed or Unconscious
Definition (Morphological Classification)
- Structural Similarities (Based)
- Universal Features (Based)
- Types of Morpheme
- Word-Formation System
Word-Formation Systems (Morphological Class.)
- Inflectional
- Agglutinative
- Isolating
Inflectional (Morphological Class - Word-Formation System)
- Inseparable inflections Fused with Lexical Stems
- Word Ending with Lexical Stems
(e. g. love + d, s, ing)
Agglutinative (Morpho. Class. - Word Formation System)
- Affixes added to Lexical Stems (little change)
- Transparent Arrangement
(e. g. daKatzar - Basque ‘I Bring Them)
Isolating (Morpho. Class. - Word Formation System)
- Opposite of Agglutiative
- Every Morpheme is a Seperate Word
- Monosyllabic
- No affixes
- No Inflection
- Grammatical info = articles, prep., conjonction.
English Typological Classification
Mixture of 3
- Inflectional
- Agglutinative
- Isolating
English as
Inflectional Language
the morpheme -S- coombines 4 types of Grammatical Info.
- Singular
- Plural
- Indicative
- Third Person
English as
Agglutinative
Meaning of Derivational Morphemes Transparent
e. g. un- = not
- ly = adjectival
- ness = abstract noun
English as
isolating
- Elements = Seperate Words
- Word Order relatively Rigid
e. g. articles, prep., neg. words, will
Genetic classification is a theory of….
Common Origin
Genetic Classification
Observed Resemblances bw Languages
Languages = Laws of Evolution – Common Ancestor
- languages displaying systematic differences must descend from a common source
Which Morphological Classification Type is Synthetic
Agglutinative
Which Morphological Classification Type is Analytic
Isolating
Built Comparatives (definition)
Word Built for comparison
e.g. - More Important, - Bigger
Built Comparatives
- Analytic (EXEMPLE)
More important
Built Comparatives
- Synthetic (EXEMPLE)
Bigger