MULT10015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Language Family, Edward Said, Indo-European Languages
25 Jul 2018
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Week 2 readings: language matters- laurie bauer, janet holmes and paul warren, commonalities between danish and german are not coincidental: danish and. These new words can sometimes arise from the slang of the original language: original word for horse= equus. Not a steady, consistent rate of change: modern icelandic and modern norwegian both derive from old norse. However, when comparing old norse with modern icelandic and modern. Norwegian, modern icelandic looks more like the old norse than modern. Hence, icelandic is a language that is generally considered to have changed relatively little in the last thousand years: dying words, endangered languages and what they have to tell us- nicholas. Evans: language relatedness cannot simply be based on lists of vocabulary, but exists in complicated paradigms, afro-asiatic language family speakers are found in nigeria, ethiopia, He believed that a spurious (insubstantial) culture is one where the individual is forced into frustrating and spiritually meaningless tasks in the name of higher efficiency.
