Topic 7 Flashcards
1
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Johann Gottfried Herder
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questions of the beginning of the language, language is not perfect, language developed together with thinking, all languages are derived form one language
2
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Charles F. Hockett
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2 crucial points in the history fo language –> opening of closed of signals through blending + duality
3
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Displacement
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the ability to to refer to things or events that are remote in time or space
4
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Reflexiveness
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the capacity to use language to talk about language itself
5
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Prevarication
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the ability to tell lies
6
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Indo European classification
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Romance, Germanic, Balto-slavic, Indo-iranian, Celtic
7
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Non Indo-European
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Basque, Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish
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