Linguistic history

The term epilepsy is as clinically ambiguous as the term cerebral palsy—with epilepsy having an even older linguistic history. People who write about the history of epilepsy usually start with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, but its history as the sacred disease goes back to the ancient Babylonians and certainly before that into the mists of prehistory.13... 

Think, and write down as much as you can, about your own personal linguistic history, the ways in which you have written, read and spoken in your life. Here are some questions to help you to think about this ... 

Tykot, R.H. (2006). Isotope analysis and the history of maize. In Histories of Maize Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication and Evolution of Maize, ed. Staller, J.E., Tykot, R.H. and Benz, B.F., Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, pp. 131-142. 

Parsimony analysis, which in comparative linguistic is the last chance in reconstructing the history of disappearing languages (Gray 2000), might hel unraveling past biosynthetic events (Chapter 16.1). 

As with all shadowy protohistories, the question arises with Batak whether we are on safer ground tracing the history of a place, the domain occupied by the six major Batak ethno-linguistic groups of today s North Sumatra province, or of a people called Batak or identifiable in some... 

Chomsky, N. (1966). Cartesian linguistics a chapter in the history of rationalist thought. New York Harper and Row. 

Present the history or trace its development or changes from the original linguistical meaning... 

Stories with Music. Cassettes or CDs that showcase music history can invigorate musical/rhyth-mic and verbal/linguistic learners to listen, and then analyze what they ve heard. Audio stories such as Beethoven Lives Upstairs highlight Beethoven s music between chapters. Beethoven Lives Upstairs is also available as a video to visually reinforce the lessons heard. Some evaluative prompts for Beethoven Lives Upstairs might be ... 

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