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Zeinep Bazarbayeva; Nazgul Ospangaziyeva; Akshay Zhalalova; Kulpash Koptleuova; Ainur Karshigayeva – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Languages that have complex syllable patterns also share linguistic features with each other. These features can be identified through diachronic paths developed by these syllable patterns this study aimed to show the universality of syllabemes in Kazakh and other languages, focusing on questions like evolution of syllables in the Turkic…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Turkic Languages, Language Classification, Phonology
Green, Georgia M. – 1984
Most of the ordinary words in a language do not mean; rather, they act as rigid designators, referring to the same object in all possible words in which the object exists. Most words are names that are used as rigid designators of kinds--natural kinds (species, genre, and so forth), artifacts, physical and social magnitudes, and sorts of…
Descriptors: Definitions, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology, Language Classification
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Bhat, D. N. S. – Language Sciences, 1975
The comparative method is not a single method of reconstruction but a complex set of procedures based on different assumptions and hypotheses about language change. The paper examines sound-meaning relationships, traditions, phonetic distinctions and the sets of oppositions, & regularity and irreversibility of phonetic change in the discussion.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Classification, Language Typology
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Birnbaum, Henrik – Linguistics, 1975
Addresses some of the problems concerning the hierarchical relationship between language typology and genetic linguistics and between typology and universal grammar. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar
Sturtevant, Edgar H. – 1947
The basis for understanding the origin, development, and behavior of language is presented in this introduction to linguistic science. Aspects of language that link linguistics to anthropology, social studies, and mathematics are examined. Major emphasis is on phonetics and phonemics, historical considerations, vocabulary, and semantic change.…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Mackey, William Francis – 1971
Standard measures and techniques are needed to establish resemblances and differences among languages. A determination of the degree to which one lanquage or dialect differs from another requires the examination of language universals. To study what languages have in common, attention has to be given to the physical, psychological, and social…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
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Key, Mary Ritchie – 1978
This paper about the history and distribution of indigenous languages of Bolivia is divided into two parts. The first part deals with: (1) the developments of comparative work in South American Indian languages, (2) the phonological problems of comparative work in recently written languages, and (3) the apparent conflicts when dealing with early…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Anthropological Linguistics, Aymara, Comparative Analysis