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Greek. Why Greek?. Greece is the origin of Philosophy Western science Western medicine Christianity. Greek and Latin. There are obvious connections between Greek and Latin Similar morphology Same structures/same morphemes But different phonologies. Greek and Latin.

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  1. Greek

  2. Why Greek? • Greece is the origin of • Philosophy • Western science • Western medicine • Christianity

  3. Greek and Latin • There are obvious connections between Greek and Latin • Similar morphology • Same structures/same morphemes • But different phonologies

  4. Greek and Latin • English borrowed so heavily from Latin that it inherited Latin morphology and phonology • Not so much from Greek • We can see hints of morphology and can identify the phonological rules that differentiate Greek from Latin

  5. syn (collective)

  6. Alternations

  7. ana- (throughout)

  8. V V V 2 2 1 Vowel Deletion ➛

  9. dia (through)

  10. cata (down)

  11. para (beside)

  12. meta (above)

  13. anti- (before)

  14. epi- (in additon)

  15. apo- (from)

  16. h

  17. hypo (below)

  18. eu (good)

  19. hyper (over)

  20. Greek and Latin Cognates

  21. ex (out)

  22. exo, ecto

  23. dys (bad)

  24. -oid (resembling)

  25. -tomy (cut)

  26. -ectomy (cut out)

  27. Ablaut

  28. Vowel Grades • There is no explanation • But, early philologists mapped out the alternations and proposed 4 grades of vowels • a (ballistic) • o (symbol) • e • zero (emblem)

  29. Ablaut

  30. English

  31. Early English

  32. Compounds (quantity)

  33. Compounds (quantity)

  34. Compounds (humanity)

  35. Compounds (humanity)

  36. Universe

  37. Philosophy

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