Across
- 2. progression from lexical item to function word through various steps. Natural pathway/continuum along which forms evolve
- 4. (two words) found in 1799 in the Nile delta that was used to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs
- 5. form that is halfway between autonomous words and affixes (cconstrained to occurring next to an autonomous word or “host”)
- 6. border of Viking rule
- 9. linguistics over time
- 12. theoretical language that preceeded Indo-European
- 13. (two words) systematic correspondences between sounds that hold true across series of words
Down
- 1. languages with no known (or very distant) relatives
- 3. development of lexical items into grammatical structures
- 7. linguistics at point in time
- 8. (three words) series of sound changes in EModE that concerned long vowels and diphthong inkhorn derogatory term for Latin and Greek borrowings during Early Modern English
- 10. meaning is expressed phrasally
- 11. words in related languages that are similar in form & meaning and have a shared origin (especially frequent in basic vocabulary)