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Pimpuang, Kowit; Yuttapongtada, Methawee – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
The objectives of this research article were to study the relations of Sanskrit to English, to investigate English words identified as of Sanskrit origin which are loanwords in the Thai language and to explore the effects of using WordWall gamification for English words of Sanskrit origin in Thai learning. The samples consisted of seven master's…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, Thai, Intervention
Wooby, Philip F. – Canisius College Language Methods Newsletter, 1966
Highlighting this article which argues in defense of classical language, literature, and cultural studies is a brief description of the history and development of the Latin language, its emergence into modern tongues, its direct Etruscan derivation, and its fixed and formal nature. Other topics treated briefly include a distinction made between…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Classical Languages, Classical Literature, Diachronic Linguistics
Taylor, Daniel J. – Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 1972
Traditional grammars are criticized as having obscured or omitted many significant features of negation patterns in classical Greek. The author demonstrates that negation in Greek extensively involves semantic and syntactic factors. Certain of the factors are thoroughly embedded in the traditional approach to grammar, while others are derived from…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Greek
Voegelin, C. F.; Voegelin, F. M. – 1976
This volume consists of a classification of the world's languages. The book is organized alphabetically in terms of classes. Within each class, the title of each entry is the name of a group of related languages. On the whole, the groups of languages discussed in an entry represent genetic units or purported genetic units. The internal…
Descriptors: African Languages, Afro Asiatic Languages, American Indian Languages, Australian Aboriginal Languages