Question
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]
<Yingzhi Nyang, Social Science - Linguistics> ~20486~ <Editor: Athena Kern>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Winston Churchill B | Dunbar | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Mira Loma | Heights | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Carl Sandburg | Maggie Walker C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Thomas Jefferson D | Mercer County | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |