CLA 30 Study Guide - Final Guide: Alluvium, Carl Linnaeus, Winter Solstice
22 Mar 2018
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Friday, january 12 lecture: prescriptive dictionaries give advice on how to use words, descriptive dictionaries describe how people actually use the language, do not present judgements of language as correct or incorrect. Monday, january 22 lecture: common changes in words from latin to french to english. Wednesday, january 24 lecture: origin of the word ammonia, from the meaning salt of ammon because found near ammon"s temple. Monday, january 29 lecture: origins of the morpheme {toxic/toxo} = poison, combining forms are words composed of two or more bases (can also include morphemes) Friday, february 2 lecture: hypercorrection: between you and i incorrect between you and me correct. Monday, february 12 lecture: proto-indo-europeans spoke a language from which most european and near- Eastern and south asian languages arose: existed 5000 or more years ago (3000 bce, originated in anatolia (asian part of modern turkey, discovery, europeans traveled to india and noticed similarities between indian and.
