POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Noam Chomsky, Acrophony, Rivet
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Object: something you can hold in your hand, something distinctive. Chose one object, (eg tomato, bottled water etc) that you can touch and implode on it. Tie it to themes of nationalism, imperialism, or even its importance to you. 800 words + double space, hard copy, 21nd october 2016. Group of languages s haring s ingle common ances tor. Varieties of a language that are mutually intelligible. L anguages are s eparate languages when they are mutually unintelligible: p res criptive vs . P res criptive s tatements make judgements bas ed on no or weak evidence. Arabic: h is torical changes that differentiated g ermanic branch from older ie. His torical changes kw > hw t > p > f: h is torical changes that differentiated modern e ng lis h from modern g erman. E nglis h los t the velar fricative. G erman kept it (licht, nacht, s icht)
