Lecture 8. Roman German

PROTO-GERMANIC and the OG languages had ....... grammatical structure

• synthetic

• analytic

• inflectional

....... grammatical structure means that the relationships between the parts of the sentence were shown by the forms of the words

• analytic

• synthetic

• agglutinative

Standard German has analytic grammar structure

• true

• false

Latin           French        Russian      Gothic        Old English          Modern English   ego    je                я        ik                ic                I

these are examples of....

• inflection

• sound interchange

• suppletion

Gradation can be seen in one of the ways of gramticl form building synthetic language. It is...

• suppletion

• sound interchange

• case building suffexes

... language relationship of the words in the sentence is built by words position or by auxiliary words

• analytic

• synthetic

• agglutinative

Present day English is (a)  

the dental suffix [ð,Ө,d] is marker of the Past and Participle II of (a)   verbs

What is verb inflection called?

(a)  

Exceptions of degrees of adjectives like good-better-the best can be example of ...

• suppletion

• sound interchange

• inflection