Historical Linguistics

Historical linguistics is also called

• comparative linguistics

• computational linguistics

• intercomparative linguistics

• paralinguistics

Diachronic linguistics means

• the study of language at a given point in time

• the study of language through time

• the study of language dealing with time

• the study of language as a metaphor for time

Synchronic linguistics is the study of a language

• at a given point in time

• in a relation with its mother languages

• that is extinct

• as spoken by proto-indo-europeans

A language family is a group of languages

• that were developed at the same time

• that are derived from the same ancestral language

• that are descendants of Romance languages

• that are derived from dead languages

Latin languages are also called

• Romantic languages

• dead languages

• Romance languages

• Roman languages

The family tree model of language assumes a genetic relationship between languages

• that derived from the same ancestral language

• that look similar

• that are not related through cognates

• that developed in the same area

The first person to formally describe the similarities among a number of languages

• August Schleichter

• Johannes Schmidt

• Sir William Jones

• Jakob Grimm

"Proto-language" means

• before writing system was developed

• ancestral or parent language

• the descendant of a language

• the historical prototype of a dead language

The regularity or relatedness hypothesis is the idea that many similarities indicate that languages

• share similar grammatical features

• have been pronounced in the same manner

• derive from a mother language

• share lexical and phonological features with Romance languages

English belongs to what family group?

• Indo-Iranian

• Italic

• Hellenic

• Germanic