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English is:
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West, low Germanic
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English developed
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Around 2500-100 BCE
Tacitus (56-120 AD)
-wrote travel narratives
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Comitatus
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A social construct meaning to go around together.
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6 Distinctive Features of Germanic Languages
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1)Voiced stops-->voiceless stops
2)Voiced aspirates-->voiced stops
3)Have strong and weak verbs
4)Two tense system
5)Strong and weak adjectives
6)Fixed initial stress
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Grimm's Law
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-1822
-Set of regular, consonant correspondence
-When you have voiceless stops in a non-Germanic IndoEuropean language, you will have a voiceless fricative in a Germanic language.
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Ablaut
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When a grammatical meaning is signaled in change. Drink/drank/drunk
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Synthetic
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Grammar is shown by changing form
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Periphrastic
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Grammar is shown by ordering words a certain way
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Strong adjectives
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Have no determiner. Weak adjectives have a determiner.
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Fixed initial stress
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fixed on the first syllable of the root.
Hundred/ankle/anger
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Do phonetic symbols in IPA correspond to PDE letters and symbols?
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No, one letter for one sound.
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Voice for consonants
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Place for consonants
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Manner for consonants
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Inflectional Morphemes
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Derivational Morphemes
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