protolanguage
pro·to·lan·guage
P0617000 (prō′tō-lăng′gwĭj)protolanguage
(ˌprəʊtəʊˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ)pro•to•lan•guage
(ˈproʊ toʊˌlæŋ gwɪdʒ)n.
单词 | protolanguage |
释义 | protolanguagepro·to·lan·guageP0617000 (prō′tō-lăng′gwĭj)protolanguage(ˌprəʊtəʊˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ)pro•to•lan•guage(ˈproʊ toʊˌlæŋ gwɪdʒ)n. ProtolanguageProtolanguage(parent language, or Ursprache), a term designating a hypothetical state of a group or family of related languages, reconstructed on the basis of a system of correspondences established between the languages in phonetics, grammar, and semantics by the comparative historical method—for example, Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Slavic. The reality of a protolanguage as a unified spoken language of a specific prehistorical ethnos remains controversial. A protolanguage may also be understood as a group of closely related dialects, from which more recent groups of historically attested languages arose as a result of individual development. If the origin and development of a group of related languages do not predate recorded history, the reality of a protolanguage may be strictly documented—for instance, the modern Romance languages, whose protolanguage was the Latin vernacular known as Vulgar Latin. The elements and forms of a protolanguage are called archetypes. Their correspondences at subsequent stages of linguistic evolution are called reflexes. REFERENCESMeillet, A. Vvedenie v sravnitel’noe izuchenie indoevropeiskikh iazykov. Moscow-Leningrad, 1938. (Translated from French.)Porzig, W. Chlenenie indoevropeiskoi iazykovoi oblasti. Moscow, 1964. (Translated from German.) Obshchee iazykoznanie: Melody lingvisticheskikh issledovanii. Moscow, 1973. V. A. VINOGRADOV |
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