Johann Gottfried Herder
questions of the beginning of the language, language is not perfect, language developed together with thinking, all languages are derived form one language
Charles F. Hockett
2 crucial points in the history fo language –> opening of closed of signals through blending + duality
Displacement
the ability to to refer to things or events that are remote in time or space
Reflexiveness
the capacity to use language to talk about language itself
Prevarication
the ability to tell lies
Indo European classification
Romance, Germanic, Balto-slavic, Indo-iranian, Celtic
Non Indo-European
Basque, Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish