peculiarities of germanic languages

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презентация powerpoint lecture 10-phonetic peculiarities of germanic languages. morphology of the noun. adjective, pronoun and numeral in old english. done; safarova zarina peculiarities of germanic languages the features that characterize the evolution of germanic from its parent indo-european are: germanic has a number of unique words: there are no similar words in other indo-european languages. these words may have been lost in the other indo-european languages, borrowed from non-indo-european languages, or perhaps coined in germanic. among these words are modern english rain, drink, drive, broad, hold, wife, meat, fowl, sea 2.the stress in germanic languages fell on the first syllable (except prefixes), while in ie stress was free 3.the indo-european verbal system was simplified. indo-european distinctions of tense and aspect (indicates whether an action or state is viewed with regard to beginning, duration, incompletion, etc.) were lost except for the present and preterite (past) tenses. thus, in ancient germanic languages …
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led weak or regular) with a dental suffix, -d or -t (e.g. fish, fished, etc.). germanic languages thus have two types of verbs, weak (regular) and strong (irregular). strong verbs indicate tense by an internal vowel change (ablaut, gradation) (e.g. swim, swam, swum). there are several views concerning the origin of the dental suffix with weak verbs. according to one of them, the suffix –d- originated from a verb meaning ‘do’ (old english dūn, german tun). the root + a stem-building suffix + a grammatical inflection the noun in germanic, as well as in other indo-european languages, had the following structure: germanic developed weak and strong adjectives. the weak declension was used when the modified noun was preceded by another word which indicated case, number, and gender. the strong declension was used in other situations. these declensions are no longer found in modern english, but compare these examples from old …
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презентация powerpoint lecture 10-phonetic peculiarities of germanic languages. morphology of the noun. adjective, pronoun and numeral in old english. done; safarova zarina peculiarities of germanic languages the features that characterize the evolution of germanic from its parent indo-european are: germanic has a number of unique words: there are no similar words in other indo-european languages. these words may have been lost in the other indo-european languages, borrowed from non-indo-european languages, or perhaps coined in germanic. among these words are modern english rain, drink, drive, broad, hold, wife, meat, fowl, sea 2.the stress in germanic languages fell on the first syllable (except prefixes), while in ie stress was free 3.the indo-european verbal system was simplified. indo-...

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