Jean Aitchison Part 2

Proto-Indo-European is the presumed parent language of present day languages such as … (p. 24)

	English, Portuguese, Finnish, Persian
	Arabic, German, Russian, English
	Czech, Irish, Basque, English
	Greek, English, Welsh, Hindi

In earliest documents, most Indo-European languages had a word order as in … (p. 29)

	Pigs eat apples
	Pigs apples eat
	Apples pigs eat
	Eat apples pigs

Nostratic is … (p. 29)

	an umbrella family covering several language families
	the native American equivalent of the Indo-European language family
	the African equivalent of the Indo-European language family
	a subdivision of the Indo-European language family

Human language arose at least … years ago (p. 29).

	8,000
	18,000
	80,000
	800,000

The discipline of … tries to calculate how long ago any two languages separated (p. 32).

	glossology
	glossogenetics
	glottochronology
	glottography

An ’eastern’ characteristic discovered by population typology is … (p.32)

	grammaticalisation of the words of wishing
	the absence of words for ‘and’
	the distinction between alienable and inalienable possession
	the absence of a distinction between exclusive and inclusive we

Internal reconstruction suggests that at an earlier stage of English … (p. 35)

	/?/ was pronounced at the beginning of word and /ð/ inside a word
	/?/ was pronounced before a consonant and /ð/ before a vowel
	/?/ was pronounced in all positions
	/ð/ was mainly pronounced in words of French origins