I have returned to the wonderful fairy tale world that is our library. Among the many books I have at my disposal, I decided to start with "A Graphic Guide to Linguistics" - because I love comics and this is a graphic guide, but also what better subject with which to start then the study of words and language.
These little books are jam-packed with information, so here comes one of the first of the quizzes I will make for the book.
These little books are jam-packed with information, so here comes one of the first of the quizzes I will make for the book.
- Who took the first step in European Linguistics?
- Who was the first to classify between nouns, verbs, articles, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, and participles?
- What other language used the Greek analysis to order their language accordingly?
- Which 17th century scholars put together a remarkably original "universal" grammar of French?
- Saussure said that "A linguistic sign is not a link between a thing and a name but between a _____ and a ______".
- While Saussure died without publishing his ideas, how were his ideas spread?
- What is the difference between synchronic and diachronic structures?
- Who was the first to make the connection between culture and language?
- Post-Bloomfield Structuralists were the first to?
- Generative Grammar was invented by whom?