Practical_Class_4_P

Why do languages change?

One of the reasons for the change of the language- the decay of language base. Some innovations arising in different places and at different times, unevenly cover the branches and groups. As a result, for example, one branch of the Slavic features more closely linked to the Baltic, and other features - with the Iranian branch, some features - with the German branch, etc. Often, due to various reasons there is a mass assimilation of the language population speaking another language. This assimilation is accompanied by massive violations of digestible language, and these violations in each case naturally due to the influence of the native language of the corresponding ethnic group.

Language can also be eliminated in another language, but leave in it its own characteristics.

1. Specify the contribution of each of the scientists to the development of the comparative methods. Make a chart.

Name	Short biography	Contribution
J. Grimm	was a German philologist, jurist, and mythologist. Jacob Grimm was born in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. His father, Philipp Grimm, was a lawyer, but he died while Jacob was a child, and his mother was left with very small means. His mother's sister was lady of the chamber to the Landgravine of Hesse, and she helped to support and educate her numerous family. Jacob was sent to the public school at Kassel in 1798 with his younger brother Wilhelm (born on 24 February 1786). In 1802, he proceeded to the University of Marburg where he studied law, a profession for which he had been destined by his father. His brother joined him at Marburg a year later, having just recovered from a long and severe illness, and likewise began the study of law.	Grimm brothers published a book on the history and grammar of the German language, on the background of the numerous dialects of the latter, were the stimulus to the design Germanic studies and linguistics as an independent scientific discipline. The founder of the mythological school in folklore
R. Rask	Danish linguist and orientalist, one of the founders of the Indo and comparative linguistics. As a student Rask showed brilliant linguistic abilities; after graduating, he became assistant librarian of the University Library. Rusk was elected the first president of the "Icelandic Literary Society"	Opened regular correspondences between Indo-European and Germanic noisy consonants ("movement of the consonants"); proved the antiquity of the language of the Avesta and its close affinity with Sanskrit; He deciphered a number of cuneiform texts.
F. Bopp	a German linguist known for extensive and pioneering comparative work on Indo-European languages. Having got acquainted through Vindishmanu with oriental languages, Franz Bopp became interested in Sanskrit, and went to his study in Paris, where he stayed for 5 years. Bopp in 1821 he was a professor of Oriental Literature and General Linguistics at the University of Berlin, since 1822 a member of the Academy of Sciences and worked tirelessly until 1864	The founder of comparative linguistics.