Language families
The language family that includes French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
What is Romance?
The language in which Beowulf is written.
What is Old English?
The lexical category of the bolded word in "this is my house".
What is a noun?
The sign language most commonly spoken in Great Britain.
What is British Sign Language?
A morpheme that is attached to the end of a word.
What is a suffix?
The language family that includes English, Welsh, Persian, Armenian, Greek, and Ukrainian.
What is Indo-European?
Different words that share a common ancestor.
What are cognates?
The lexical category of the bolded word in the sentence "We're trying to house these children."
What is a verb?
The closest relative of American Sign Language.
What is French Sign Language?
The grammatical subsystem concerned with such things as word order and agreement.
What is syntax?
A language with no known relatives.
What is a language isolate?
A reconstructed ancestor language.
What is a proto-language?
The lexical category of the bolded words in these sentences.
I'm at home.
The cat is on her mat.
What is a preposition?
The representation of written letters in a sign language using the hands.
What is fingerspelling?
A relative of the Welsh language spoken in northern France.
What is Breton?
The language family that contains Mandarin, Burmese, and Tibetan.
What is Sino-Tibetan?
The process by which lexical items become grammatical function words or affixes.
What is grammaticalization?
The lexical category of the bolded words in these sentences:
This is mine.
I love her.
What is a pronoun?
A sign language that has its origins in a deaf school in Managua in the late twentieth century.
What is Nicaraguan Sign Language?
In this kind of dialect of English (and some other languages) /r/ is pronounced only when it immediately precedes a vowel.
What is a non-rhotic dialect?
The member of the Afro-Asiatic family with the oldest known written record.
What is (Ancient) Egyptian?
The process by which words are altered or replaced because people want to avoid saying them.
What is taboo deformation?
The lexical category of the bolded words in these sentences.
That's my house.
I have a garden.
What is this flower?
What is a determiner?
The area of sign language grammar in which the main parameters are handshape, orientation, location, movement, and non-manual expression.
What is phonology?
Ulfilas translated the Bible into this now extinct East Germanic language.
What is Gothic?