LING 1030 Study Guide - Final Guide: Austronesian Peoples, Altaic Languages, Afroasiatic Languages
11 Dec 2016
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Discrete combinatorial system: a finite number of discrete elements are sampled, combined, and permuted to create larger structures. Analytic -simple, no changes in tense or long words. Agglutinative - words may contain different morphemes to determine their meaning, but each of these morphemes (including stems and affixes) remains in every aspect unchanged after their union. Fusional - use a single morpheme in combination with affixes to denote multiple grammatical, syntactic, or semantic changes. Ex: spanish conjugations uses affixes combined w/ single morpheme. Polysynthetic - one word can be an entire sentence. Ergative languages: grammatical case that identifies the noun as a subject of a transitive verb in ergative absolutive languages. Diachronic linguistics (historical linguistics): the study of the way in which a language has evolved. Stated that the indo-european p, t, and k f, th, and h in the germanic languages.
