ESSENTIALS OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS

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ESSENTIALS OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS

BRANCHES OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS phonetical morphological, and syntactic lexical

ASPECTS OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS synchronical diachronical

PRACTICAL AIMS OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS 1) translation practice; 2) compiling dictionaries; 3) teaching foreign languages.

METHODS OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTIC RESEARCH SPECIFIC METHODS: contrastive; historical and comparative. OTHER METHODS: 1) descriptive; 2) experimental; 3) statistic; 4) transformational; 5) substitutional; 6) intermediate and ultimate constituents analysis; 7) inductive (comparing language data on the ground of certain criteria); 8) deductive (working out criteria for comparison) methodology.

TERMINOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTIC RESEARCH Language Universals Language Type Typological dominant features Typological recessive features Isomorphic (common) and allomorphic (divergent) features Metalanguage An Etalon Language A World Language Artificial Languages Language Norm Speech Norm

History of Comparative Linguistics the end of the 18th century up to the middle of the 19th century, which is called the beginning of comparative research; the end of the 19th century – the period of neogrammarian studies, when linguists started comparing living languages; the beginning of the 20th century up to the present – the period of structural and functional approaches to language.

W. von Humboldt’s Classification of Languages isolating (like Chinese); agglutinative (like Turkish); flexional (like Russian, Ukrainian); incorporating (languages of American Indians).

LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATIONS

NUMBER OF SPEAKERS (estimated statistics in the early 1980-s) Indo-European Sino-Tibetan Niger-Congo Afro-Asiatic Ausronesian Dravidian Japanese Altaic Austro-Asiatic Korean Tai Nilo-Saharan Amerindian Uralic 2,000,000,000 1,040,000,000 260,000,000 230,000,000 200,000,000 140,000,000 120,000,000 90,000,000 60,000,000 50,000,000 30,000,000 25,000,000 23,000,000

THE INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY The Indo-Iranian Group The Baltic Group The Slavic Group The Hellenic group The Romance Group The Germanic Group The Celtic Group The Albanian Language The Armenian Language

Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene THE SLAVIC LANGUAGES GROUPS Western Polish, Czech, Slovak, Sorbian, and Kashubian Eastern Russian, Ukrainian, and Byelorussian Southern Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene

THE GERMANIC LANGUAGES GROUPS Western English, German, Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans, Yiddish, and Frisian Eastern Gothic (dead) Northern Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faeroese

TABLE OF TYPOLOGICAL FEATURES (according to V. Skalichka)

TYPES OF LANGUAGES (morphological classification) agglutinative ; inflecting (fusion); isolating ; polysynthetic; introflexional (Arabic, Hebrew).

Agglutinative Languages Words are built up out of a long sequence of units, with each unit expressing a particular grammatical meaning, in a clear one-to-one way, e.g., one for each category of person, number, tense, voice, and mood. Affixes may be “glued” to the stem of word to add to its meaning or to show its grammatical function, e.g., in Swahili wametulipa “they have paid us” consists of wa + me + tu +lipa they perfective us pay marker Languages which are highly agglutinative include Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese, Swahili, and Turkish, although there is no clear-cut distinction between agglutinative, inflecting, and isolating languages.

Inflecting (fusion) Languages The form of a word is changed to show a shift in meaning or grammatical function. Often there is no clear distinction between the basic part of the word and the part which shows a grammatical function such as number or tense. For e.g.: mice (= mouse + plural); came (= come + past tense). Greek, Latin, English, Russian, and Ukrainian are inflecting languages, though English is analytical, whereas other languages mentioned are synthetical (with more inflections and fewer auxiliaries).

ANALYTICAL & SYNTHETICAL LANGUAGES Grammatical meaning is synthesized with the lexical one within the word form. Grammatical meaning is realized by means of inflections and word-forming affixes, sound interchange (ablaut), and suppletivity. ANALYTICAL LANGUAGES Lexical meaning is realized by notional words, while grammatical – by auxiliaries, word order, and intonation. Analytization is extremely intensive and is manifested in the functional synonymy of case-inflections, reduction of the noun-paradigm, word-order fixation, predominance of adjoinment in word-phrase relations, abundance of paradigmatic forms (Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous), predominance of conversion, postposition formation and phrasing among word-building patterns, abundance of function-words.

Isolating Languages They lack inflexions. Word forms do not change, and in which grammatical functions are shown by word order and the use of function words, e. g. in Mandarin Chinese: júzi wõ chi le orange I eat (function word) “I ate the orange” wõ chî le júzi le I eat (f.w.) orange (f.w.) “I ate an orange” Languages, which are highly isolating include Chinese, Samoan, and Vietnamese.

Polysynthetic (Incorporating) Languages Different parts of the utterance are united in the form of amorphous word-stems (roots). Their unity gets auxiliary elements. Compound words look like sentences. Words are very long, containing a mixture of agglutinative and inflectional features. In Tiwi ngirruunthingapukani (‘I kept on eating’) is: ngi – rru – unthing – apu – kani I past tense for some time eat repeatedly Chukot, Eskimo, Papuan, and the languages of American Indians & Australian aborigines possess such features.

2) nominative; 3) ergative . SYNTACTIC CLASSIFICATION OF LANGUAUGES (I. I. Meshchaninov’s classification) 1) passive; 2) nominative; 3) ergative .

PHONETIC CLASSIFICATION OF LANGUAGES (O. Isachenko’s Classification) Vocalic Languages; Consonantal Languages.

LANGUAGE CHANGE REASONS INTERNAL EXTERNAL Democratic Society; Learning; Printing; Mass media; Language contacts. EXTERNAL Communication; Expressive & information functions; Language norm; Language potential.