LING 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Scottish Gaelic, Afroasiatic Languages, Hixkaryana Language
1 Apr 2017
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Sov, svo, vso: 95% of the world" languages. Most languages have place subject before object, but you can still see ovs, osv and. Order of elements in one structure has implications for order of elements in another structure (vps and pps) Vo: language will have prepositions instead of postpositions (vso irish) Ov: language will have postpositions instead of prepositions (sov hindi) Examine the following table, which shows the words for the numbers 1-5 in five different languages. Different languages use different words for names of numbers. Degree of similarity between a and b. D and e have one exact match and other similarities. Lanuages a and b: german and dutch. Because of the close similarities between these two languages, we can say that they are genetically related. Genetically related- these languages have a common ancestor. Comparative reconstruction- the properties of a language were not written down, they were determined by looking at its decendants.
