November 2, 2010 Languages of the world Homework

– Many „isolated“ language (i.e. no genetic relationship to any other language can be established), for

Two important internet resources about the languages of the world are the „World Atlas of Language Structure“ (http://wals.info/) and

What are the ten major branches of the Indo-European language family?. Of the branches that still comprise living languages, name one

a correlation between the predominant orders of different

Explain the difference between the accusative and the ergative case marking system.. Name two languages for each of

There are three basic ways how a combination of a negation and an indefinite pronoun can be expressed across languages.. What are these

morphological features are only relevant to the dependent construction and not to the heada. Data from

● Languages with free word order: Latin puer puellam amat.. 'boy