LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Indo-European Languages, Language Change, Germanic Languages
24 Dec 2018
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Wave model of language change: linguistic innovations spread, like waves created by a stone thrown into a pond, useful for modeling influences of one language on adjacent languages. Intersecting with the waves created by other innovations. Coexistence of languages with other languages: languages don"t exist in a vacuum; languages coexist with other languages in the same place, montreal is a perfect example, lots of different languages interact at any given time. Old norse-influenced dialect of old french: anglo-norman became the language of the ruling classes in england, displacing. French-canadian fur trappers: 50-1000 speakers, verbal system is (basically) cree and the nominal system is (basically) french, neither monolingual cree speakers nor monolingual french speakers can understand. Michif: not mutually intelligible with french and cree, lexicon, nouns: 83-94% french, verbs: 88-99% cree, question words: cree, personal pronouns: cree, postpositions: cree, prepositions: french, conjunctions: 55% cree, 40% french, numerals: french, demonstratives: cree.
