Linguists
and languages for 5-page report
Assignment:
You will be assigned one language from the list below; you must also choose
a second language that is completely unrelated
to the first. Your assignment is to write a 2-page summary on each of the
two langauges. Tell what branch of which language family the language belongs
to; where it is spoken; approximately how many speakers it has; and mention
three or so key characteristics of the language. For the fifth page, make
a comparison of the two languages regarding their key linguistic features.
Next, collect information on the linguist in the list with the same number
as the language you were assigned, and write a one-page outline on him or
her for the sixth page of the assignment. Include mention of his or her nationality,
and major contributions to linguistics.
Here are some links to sites that show the genetic
relationships among the languages of the world:
A good place to start:
http://www.krysstal.com/langfams.html
There
are some nice maps and charts here:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/arjenbolhuis/language-family-trees/
Ethnologue has information on individual languages:
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
Wikipedia offers quite a bit of detail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_families_and_languages
| 1. Abercrombie,
David (1909-92) 2. Apollonius Dyscolus (c. 110-175 AD) 3. Aristotle (384-322 BC) 4. Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922) 5. Ben Yehuda, Eliezer (1858-1922) 6. Bickerton, Derek (1926- ) 7. Bloomfield, Leonard (1887-1949) 8. Boas, Franz (1858-1942) 9. Bopp, Franz (1791-1867) 10. Braille, Louis (1809-52) 11. Brown, Roger William (1925- ) 12. Chao, Yuen Ren (1892-1982) 13. Chomsky, Noam (1928- ) 14. Comrie, Bernard 15. Courtenay, Baudouin de (1845-1929) 16. Dionysius Thrax (2nd-1st century BC) 17. Ferguson, Charles A. (1921- ) 18. Fries, Charles Carpenter (1897-1967) 19. Fromkin, Victoria A (1923- ) 20. Greenberg, Joseph H. (1915- ) 21. Grimm, Jakob (1785-1863) 22. Haas, Mary Rosamond (1910- ) 23. Hale, Ken 24. Halle, Morris (1923-) 25. Halliday, Michael (1925-) 26. Harris, Zellig S. (1909-92) 27. Haugen, Einar (1906- ) 28. Hill, Archibald A. (1902-92) 29. Hjelmslev, Louis Trolle (1899-1965) 30. Hockett, Charles Francis (1916- ) 31. Hoijer, Harry (1904-1976) 32. Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1787-1835) 33. Jakobson, Roman (1896-1982) 34. Jespersen, Otto (1860-1943) 35. Johnson, Samuel (1709-84) 36. Jones, Sir William (1746-94) 37. Joos, Martin (1907-78) 38. Klatt, Dennis H. (1938-88) 39. Labov, William (1927- ) 40. Ladefoged, Peter (1925- ) 41. Lakoff, George and Lakoff, Robin 42. Lehiste, Ilse (1922- ) 43. Lehmann, Winfred Philip (1916- ) 44. Li Fang-Kuei (1902-89) 45. Lu Fayan ³°ªk¨¥ (fl. 600 AD) 46. Martinet, Andre (1908- ) 47. Meillet, Antoine (Paul Jules) (1866-1936) 48. Montague, Richard (1931-71) 49. Ogden, Charles Kay (1889-1957) 50. Pān̩ini (between the 7th and 4th centuries BC) 51. Paul, Hermann (1846-1921) 52. Pike, Kenneth Lee (1912-2000) 53. Pitman, Sir Isaac (1813-97) 54. Plato (c. 429-347 BC) 55. Quirk, Sir Charles Randolph (1920- ) 56. Rask, Rasmus Kristian (1787-1832) 57. Sapir, Edward (1884-1939) 58. Saussure, Ferdinand(-Mongin) de (1857-1913) 59. Schleicher, August (1821-1868) 60. Sebeok, Thomas Albert (1920- ) 61. Sequoyah (1760-1843) 62. Sibawayh (ca. 760-793 AD) 63. Sturtevant, Edgar Howard (1875-1952) 64. Swadesh, Morris (1909-67) 65. Sweet, Henry (1845-1912) 66. Trubetzkoy, Nikolai Sergeyevic (1890-1938) 67. Tyndale, William (1494-1536) 68. Varro, Marcus Terentius (116-27 BC) 69. Voegelin, Charles Frederick (1906-86) 70. Wang, Li (1900-86) 71. Wang, Nien-Sun (1744-1832) 72. Webster, Noah (1758-1843) 73. Weinreich, Uriel (1926-67) 74. Whitney, William Dwight (1827-94) 75. Whorf, Benjamin Lee (1897-1941) 76. Xu Shen (c. 58-147) 77. Xun Zi (c. 313-238 BC) 78. Yang, Xiong (53 BC-18 AD) |
1. Afrikaans 2. Agarabi 3. Ainu 4. Albanian 5. Arabic 6. Armenian 7. Atayal 8. Basque 9. Burmese 10. Burushaski 11. Catalan 12. Dutch 13. Dyirbal 14. Tocharian 15. Esperanto 16. Estonian 17. Evenki 18. Farsi 19. Fijian 20. Finnish 21. Fula 22. Georgian 23. German 24. Greek 25. Guugu Yimithirr 26. Hakka 27. Hawaiian 28. Hebrew 29. Hindi/Urdu 30. Hmong 31. Hungarian 32. Indonesian/Malay 33. Inuit 34. Irish 35. Japanese 36. Kazakh 37. Ket 38. Khmer 39. Klingon 40. Korean 41. Lithuanian 42. Malagasy 43. Mongolian 44. Moso 45. Motu 46. Nahali 47. Nahuatl 48. Nama 49. Navajo 50. Nepali 51. Norwegian 52. Ojibway 53. Piraha 54. Portuguese 55. Quechua 56. Romani 57. Romanian 58. Russian 59. Sami 60. Serbo-Croatian 61. Shanghainese 62. Shona 63. Southern Min 64. Spanish 65. Swahili 66. Tabasaran 67. Tagalog 68. Tamil 69. Thai 70. Tibetan 71. Tok Pisin 72. Turkish 73. Tuvan 74. Uighur 75. Vietnamese 76. Wolof 77. Xhosa 78. Yami |