Words and phrases: frequency, genres, collocates, concordances, synonyms, and WordNet

Helping language learners become language researchers: wordandphrase.info (part 1) What is wordandphrase.info? Wordandphrase.info is a brilliant website. Essentially, it is a user-friendly interface for analysing a corpus. (For those of you who haven’t come across this term as yet, a corpus is a collection of texts stored electronically.) In this case, it is the COCA (Corpus Of Contemporary American English) corpus, a 450 million word corpus. Due to its user-friendliness (colour-coding for different parts of speech in the examples, colour-coding for frequency in text analysed etc.), wordandphrase.info seems ideal for use with students, a tool that could help them become more independent, by providing a means of discovering how language is used, that doesn’t rely on the teacher. It provides information like: It allows you to: All in all, it enables you to gain a better idea of the meaning and use of a word or phrase, as well as its potential alternatives. However, when learners first meet it, it might seem daunting: How can we use this website with learners? Conclusion:

Old English Translator - Old English Grammar When reading the comments people make about this site probably the most common is that some users have no understanding of Old English Grammar and the most common question is, for nouns, what does Nominative, Accusative, Genitive and Dative mean? The following is an attempt to explain in simple terms what these words mean. There are many books written on this subject and they provide a much greater depth of accuracy and understanding than I can here. Having said that, here goes: Nouns are things - like King, sword and horse. In modern English we usually only change (inflect) the endings of nouns to indicate possession and for the plural case. The King's crown ( 's indicates possession) The Kings came to London (s on the end implies plural - IE many kings) In Old English there are four cases for nouns and these occur for both singular and plural. Nominative: The nominative case is used for the subject of a sentence. So - to examine these concepts for the noun 'king' or Old English cyning

John McWhorter | Speaker Linguist John McWhorter thinks about language in relation to race, politics and our shared cultural history. Why you should listen John McWhorter is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, teaching linguistics, Western Civilization and music history. He is a regular columnist on language matters and race issues for Time and CNN, writes for the Wall Street Journal "Taste" page, and writes a regular column on language for The Atlantic. His work also appears in the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Aeon magazine, The American Interest and other outlets. McWhorter earned his PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993 and is the author of The Power of Babel, Doing Our Own Thing, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, The Language Hoax and most recently Words on the Move and Talking Back, Talking Black. Beyond his work in linguistics, McWhorter is the author of Losing the Race and other books on race. What others say

Lessons - Copperplate/Engrossers Script Lessons in Calligraphy and Penmanship Copperplate/Engrossers Script Welcome to the IAMPETH Lessons pages. Here you will find a wealth of material for learning calligraphy and penmanship. If you find these materials useful, and would like to support the organization that makes this site possible, please consider joining IAMPETH or making a donation. Documents marked with an * are Adobe PDF documents (download free Adobe Reader) Copperplate/Engrosser's Script Example Lessons in Engraver's Script, W.A. Guidelines used in the video clips below, Dr. Fundamentals of Script in the Copperplate Style Video The Fundamental Oval Form, Dr. Tips on Engrossers Script, Dr. ~~ Video Series ~~ How to Write Copperplate, with Hamid Reza Ebrahimi Needle Stitch Script Example Needle Stitch Script, Dr.

Emergence of Civilization and Fall into Patriarchal Dominion Christine Fielder & Chris King Paleolithic Origins There are two sexually polarized theories of human cultural origins, both of which have failed to stand the test of empirical evidence. The first is 'man the hunter' (Washburn R729, Morris R486) suggesting that male strength and hunting prowess led both to male dominance, and intelligence and culture, through skills of hunting, such as tool-making. Dolni Vestonice in Czechoslovakia is a site of an encampment of mammoth hunters dating from about 30,000 years ago. The remains include a burial site apparently honouring people of both sexes ( a 'menage-a-trois' with a central female, apparently bonded to the right-hand male, red ochre between the female's thighs and a disconcerting 'spike' driven into the left 'male's' crotch) and a hearth site with a 'venus' figurine baked clay animal figures, tools, jewelry, and a carved head of a woman whose arthritic disfigurement appears to match a skeleton at the site.

Home | LearnEnglishTeens untitled nterestingly, we must go to Russia to begin the story of where the Celts came from. There is in Russia today, just east of the Ural Mountains on the Tobol River a town and an Oblast (Russian for province) known as Kurgan. The town and the term is Russian for tumulus, the distinctive mound-grave of the nomadic culture to whom the name Kurgan was given. The Kurgans were a pre-Celtic peoples from whom the Celts evolved. The Kurgans came from the steppes of Russia and mixed with the people who were just north of the Black Sea, the North Pontic Culture, and formed a new culture. A larger view of the TransCaucuses, the cradle of the Indo-European languages as it is today. The people who moved in the Black Sea area when the early Kurgans moved on, where Cimmerians. The Scythians were either a pre-Celtic peoples or a people who greatly influenced the Celts. The particular tribe of Scythians we are interested in is the Massagetae. They were nomads who lived in tents. Go to next section The Greeks

The Kurgan Origins The Kurgan peoples received their name from archeologists who defined and identified them by the type of burial mounds found in their cultures. These mounds were called ÎkurgsÌ. The reason why they play an important role in the history of the dance (and in the inner wisdom experienced within and carried through the dance) is because they were the first cultures identified as being fundamentally, per se, patriarchal. By this we mean that they were patrifocal, that they identified the primary as being male deity and that there was a certain type of hierarchy present. There also appears to have been more individuation in these cultures than in the matriarchal and matrifocal societies of the lands they swept into and inhabited. As they swept into and replace the older Neolithic cultures, much of the art and ways of direst knowledge was either lost or altered greatly. It is probably true that we can also call these people the original Indo - Europeans.