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29 Cards in this Set
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ablaut
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A change in a vowel, originally caused by a change in stress or accent
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accusative
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In inflecting languages, a grammatical case used for direct objects and the objects of some prepositions
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active voice
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The form of the verb indicating that the subject is the doer or cause of the action
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agglutinative language
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A language in which morphemes undergo little or no change when combined to form verbs
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aspect
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another word for tense
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case
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the relationship of nouns, pronouns or adjectives to other words in the sentence
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dative
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A grammatical case indicating the indirect object or object of certain prepositions
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definite (weak) adjective
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an adjective accompanied by a demonstrative or possessive adj.
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dental preterite
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the past tense ending in d or t of weak verbs
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First Consonant Shift
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Grimm's Law and Verner's law taken together
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futhorc
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the runic alphabet
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genitive
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A grammatical case indicating possession and sometimes source
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Grimm's Law
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rules formulated by jakob grimm detailing the regular changes in the IE stops in germ. language
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imperative
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verbal mood used for expressing commands
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indicitive
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verbal mood used for stating facts
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inflectional language
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expresses grammatical reltionships primarily by means of affixes attached to roots
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isolating language
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language where wrods are invariable in form
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koine
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a form of a language, usually mixture of several dialects that is used as a trade language
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labiovelar
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{w}
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language family
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a group of languages all derived from the same parent language
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loanword
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a word adopted from another language or dialect
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mood
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a variation in verb forms to indicate situation stated by the verb
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nominative
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a grammitical case indicating the subject of the sentence
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optative
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a verbal voice used to express a wish
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pluperfect
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a tense indicating that the action specified by the verb occured by the time or before another action occured
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prosody
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the stress or pitch patterns that give a language its perceived rhythms
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subjunctive
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mood expressing will
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Verner's Law
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The rule formulated by verner to explain exceptions to Grimm's laws
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Wellentheorie
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theory stating that changes begin in a specific geographical area and spread out concentrically from that point like ripples
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