Across
- 3. languages with no known (or very distant) relatives
- 6. words in related languages that are similar in form & meaning and have a shared origin (especially frequent in basic vocabulary)
- 8. (two words) found in 1799 in Rosetta in the Nile delta, uesd to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs
- 10. progression from lexical item to function word through various steps. Natural pathway/continuum along which forms evolve
- 12. reconstructed theoretical language that preceeded Indo-European, spoken sometime in the Neolithic era
Down
- 1. development of lexical items into grammatical structures
- 2. meaning expressed phrasally
- 4. linguistic developments over time
- 5. (two words) systematic correspondences between sounds that hold true across series of words. Important tool for constructing the history of language families
- 7. form that is halfway between autonomous words and affixes, constrained to occurring next to an autonomous word (“host”)
- 9. (three words) series of sound changes in Early Modern English that concerned long vowels and diphthongs
- 11. linguistics at point in time