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Fill in linguistics flowchart. Be ready to explain its meaning. One point is done for you.

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  1. A) Explain their meanings;
  2. A. Read the text and explain carefully whether you still share the common myths about the modern male.
  3. A. Translate the terms in the table below paying attention to their contextual meaning.
  4. Add a prefix from the table to the words below. Explain their meaning.
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  6. Answer the following questions using your own words but taking into account the information in the text. (2 points)
  7. Answer the following questions. Justify your answers with the information from the tragedy. Be ready to quote.

 

 

LINGUISTICS

 


synchronic diachronic microlinguistics macrolinguistics

 


theoretical applied

- description of a language as it is at a given time

 

 


4. Methods of studying language and its history.Fill in the gaps in the table according to the model.

 

 

Year/Century Name of method Representative/s Brief description
        comparative     orientalist Sir William Jones Sanscrit, Greek and Latin ‘must have sprung from some common source, which perhaps no longer exists’
           
         
20th century          

 

5. Do you remember these terms? Find their definitions.

 

1 The Indo-Eropean family of languages 2 The First Consonant Shift 3 Verner’s Law 4 Structuralism 5 Langue and parole 6 Glossematics 7 Functionalism 8 Phonology 9 Theory of markedness 10 Theme and rheme  

 

Elaborate on the sources that can be used for studying the history of language.

See the model.

· extant tests: give a picture of vocabulary and grammar; disadvantage- pronunciation may be misleading as sounds may change but spellings remain. Pronunciation can be influenced by illiterate spelling in private letters and diaries.

· rhymes:

· related languages:

· ancient historians and geographers:

· method of internal reconstruction:

Periods in the history of the English language. Answer the questions.

1) What criteria did Henry Sweet use to divide the history of English into 3 periods?

2) Why do modern linguists disagree with him?

3) What factors should be taken into consideration while dividing it into periods?

4) What is the role of external (extralinguistic) factors in describing the history of a language?

 

8. What seems unusual in this table?

 

PERIODS IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH

 

  Early OE (pre-written OE) c. 450 – c.700   OLD
  OE (written OE)   c.700 – 1066 ENGLISH
  Early ME 1066 – 1350 MIDDLE
  ME (classical ME) 1350 – 1475 ENGLISH
  Early NE 1476 – 1660 NEW
  Normalization Period 1660 – 1800 ENGLISH
  Late NE 1800 –……….   (Mod. English)

 

 

9. Read the passage below and identify its authorship. Look back at your lecture notes. What impetus did the observation give to philology?

 

Sanskrit bore to both Greek and Latin a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong, indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick [i.e., Germanic] and the Celtick, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family....

 


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