A fable written in this language by August Schleicher was repeatedly revised as efforts to reconstruct this language progressed. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this language that is the hypothetical common ancestor of Sanskrit, Greek and Latin, among others.
ANSWER: Proto-Indo-European [or PIE; reject “Indo-European”]
[10e] Proto-Indo-European and its immediate successors classified nouns into three of these categories: masculine, feminine, and neuter.
ANSWER: grammatical genders
[10h] Proto-Indo-European also originated these verbs which link the subject of a sentence to a subject complement. Examples of these “linking verbs” in English include “to be.”
ANSWER: copular verbs [or copulae]
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