Teaching Materials in Historical Linguistics and Etymology
- 3 pages
of graphics (portrait orientation, not all pages oriented parallel) from my
Hypercard stack World of Words,
showing the historical development of the PIE
stop system, with their reflexes
in Greek, Latin, and Germanic. Download
- 1-page
graphic with details about Mandarin (Putonghua) tones. Download
- 4
1-page graphics of the history of 4 PIE roots and their English reflexes:
- 2-page
graphic from World of Words, showing
the PIE family tree,
and a map of Gaul in the time of J. Caesar, with labels in Latin. Download
- Miscellaneous
materials about PIE and ancient languages,
from my freshman etymology course "A
World of Words" Download
- Hymn to Ratri in (transliterated) Sanskrit, from the Ṛg-Veda.
- Language
Relationship problem, about historical linguistics.
- Grimm's
Law problem, showing Latin and English cognates.
- List
of PIE numerals with reflexes in Sanskrit, Greek,
Latin, Gothic, Old Irish, and Hungarian for contrast.
- List
of culturally important PIE roots (cow,
horse, bronze, weave, etc.)
- Chart
of Greek reflexes of PIE stops, with examples.
- Chart
(portrait) of Latin reflexes of PIE stops, with examples.
- Chart
of PIE labiovelar reflexes in Greek.
(In Latin the labiovelars mostly stayed labiovelar – see graphic #1
–
but Greek is a 'labializing' language, which means that historically it
lost "labiovelar" as a phonetic category, and in doing so it
smeared the reflexes
of the PIE labiovelar stops across its
phonetic spectrum from lip to throat,
with stops at dental in between.)
- Miscellaneous
materials about Greek, ditto: Download
- A
5-page handout on how to read Greek.
- Exercise:
looking up Greek words.
- List
of Greek and Latin prepositions and prefixes.
- 2-page
parsing of the Proöemium (1st 7 lines) of the Iliad
- 1-page
graphic parsing of the Proöemium (1st 7 lines) of the Iliad
- 2
Greek quizzes
- Miscellaneous
materials about Latin, ditto: Download
- Exercise:
cold translation of a text in modern Italian
- Nicene
Creed in Latin
- Quiz
on the Nicene Creed
- Quiz
on Michigan state motto
- Quiz
on Ash Wednesday liturgy
- Exercise:
questions to answer
- Exercise:
parse and construe the famous 1st sentence in Bello Gallico
- 1-page
graphic parsing of that sentence
- Morphology
problem with Latin -al/-ar suffix
- Explanation
of how to pronounce Latin, with phonetics
- 1-page
summary of Latin verb inflection
- 1-page
summary of Latin noun inflection
- 5
pages of Medieval Latin poetry, some translated
- Exercise:
list of Latin phrases used in English to look up
- Miscellaneous
linguistics materials, mostly from "A World of Words": Download
- Problems
1 & 2 of the orientation unit
- A
handout from 2000 about what I expected students to learn about Latin
- 5-page midterm examination from 2000, containing:
- Directions and Paradigm problem
- Phonetic texts to transcribe
- Nahuatl
problem
- Latin
perfect stem problem
- Greek
problem
- 2
phonemic notation quizzes
- Handout
from Levin 1993 about Spray/Load
verbs and Fill Verbs
- Negative
Polarity syntax problem
- Outline
of Rhetoric, from Aristotle via Connolly's
Rhetoric Casebook
- 3-page
handout on the 9 inflectional suffixes of English
- Morphology
problem on Turkish verb inflection
- 2
Skagit problems (1 & 2)
- A
handout on Occam's Razor and its relevance to morphological analysis