Question

Linguistics Questions:

We can be confident that English, Hindi, and Russian are related languages because

a)	English has borrowed many words from Hindi and Russian.

b)	systematic correspondences exist between them.

c) we have good historical records of their descent from a common ancestor

d) all three languages are descended from Sanskrit, which is still spoken today

In X-bar theory, forming a question is typically assumed to involve moving elements

a)	from an IP to an NP.

b)	up the syntactic tree.

c)	down the syntactic tree.

d) from the CP to the VP.

Please help. Thanks!

Answer 1

• We can be confident that English, Hindi, and Russian are related languages because all three languages are descended from Sanskrit, which is still spoken today.Sanskrit is a part of Indo-European languages.All slavic laguages are similar to sanskrit and pali languages. Russian is just one among them and probably the most similar.Vodka is the Russian word has its origins in the Vedic Sanskrit word for water – udaka.The classical Sanskrit word for water is jal and is familiar to most Indians. But the fact that the Russian word for water voda is closer to the Vedic Sanskrit word points to the close – and ancient – kinship between the two languages.
• Due to time constraints,remaining questions can be asked as another question,they will be answered,thankyou