PPT-Language Evolution and Linguistic Fossils:

How Humans Spoke at the Dawn of Language and Why our Grammars still Preserve Fossils of such Speech WSU Humanities Center 91713 Ljiljana Progovac progovacwayneedu Acknowledgements. Evidence for Evolution. What is Evolution??. Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species.. How Humans Spoke at the Dawn of Language, and Why our Grammars still Preserve “Fossils” of such Speech. WSU Humanities Center, 9/17/13 . Ljiljana. . Progovac. progovac@wayne.edu. Acknowledgements. Remains . of once living organisms.. Form from decay and are buried by sediment.. Sediment hardens into rock and preserves the shape of the organisms.. Fossils. Fossils . Remains. Molds. . Casts. . Overview of Linguistic Tools. Dictionaries. Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (. LIWC. ). Whissell’s Dictionary of Affective Language. WordNet. Parts of Speech Taggers (POS). Brown Corpus. Stanford POS. Organism DNA. 1a. Some of the strongest evidence for evolutionary relationships comes from studying the DNA of different organisms.. 1b. The fact that all organisms use the same DNA molecule to code for genetic information suggests that these organisms share a distant ancestor.. Part II. Types . of Fossils:. Molds. . Casts. Trace fossils. Petrified . fossils. Body. Mold. . fossils. - . a visible empty . space . that was left after an . organism . was . buried in sediment and then . Normative Political Theory. Huw Lewis . Introduction. Normative political theory and cultural diversity.. Recent literature has focused on the issue of linguistic diversity.. Key question: . On what grounds . Fossils have helped determine approximately when life first appeared, when plants and animals arrived on land, and when organisms became extinct.. CONDITIONS NEEDED FOR FOSSIL FORMATION. Whether or not a dead organism becomes a fossil depends upon how well it is protected from scavengers and agents of physical destruction, such as waves and currents.. Evolution. A Swedish botanist in the 1700’s who developed a classification system for the organisms known at this time . Carolus Linnaeus. A group of organisms so similar to one another that they can reproduce and have fertile offspring. Evidence. Evidence. . of . common ancestry . among species comes from many sources.. . 2. FIVE PIECES OF EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION. G – Geographical . distribution . F – Fossil . evidence (remains of ancient organisms). Geologic Time and Evolution Earth Has a History Geologic materials record enormous changes. Earth is a complex, evolving system. Physical and biological systems continuously interact. Earth constantly changes and has done so through time. Fossils, Geologic Time, Absolute & Relative Dating, and Natural Resources Chapters 5 & 6 How Do Fossils Form? Fossils are found in sedimentary rocks like sandstone, limestone, and shale In Virginia, most fossils are typology. Linguistic typology.  (or . language typology. ) is a field of . linguistics.  that studies and classifies languages according to their structural and functional features. Its aim is to describe and explain the common properties and the structural diversity of the world's languages.. BSc 4. th. Semester (Open Elective). Fundamentals . of Geology (BOE). OPEN ELECTIVE COURSE (OTHER THAN GEOLOGY MAIN STUDENTS. ). Dr Abdullah Khan. Associate . Professor . Department of Geology. AMU.