Which of the following statements about the English language is incorrect?
a. English belongs to the Indo-European language family.
b. English belongs to the Germanic language subgroup.
c. English is one of the many languages that diverged from an ancient unified language called Proto-IndoEuropean.
d. English is a “daughter” language.
e. English has historically suffered a narrowing and loss of meaning.
ANSWER: e
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a. Using British schoolboys to see if they could move stones similar to those used to build Stonehenge. b. Using a stone tool to scrape hide and then examining microwear present on the tool's edge to determine the type of wear caused by hide-scraping. c. Using seriation to construct a way to date archaeological sites based on painted pottery styles. d. Throwing hafted spear points into elephant carcasses to determine their capacity for penetration. e. Excavating major quarries into bedrock using only fire, wooden wedges, and stone mallets to see if materials for ancient stones tools could have been located and collected in this way.
The core aesthetic value of art __________ from culture to culture
a. varies little b. varies a lot c. is not comparable d. is irrelevant
Most of the remains that have been excavated from Upper Paleolithic sites have been
found in a. caves and rock shelters. b. canvas tents. c. wood huts. d. mud dwellings.
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a. is wedded to the emic approach b. emphasizes the etic approach c. avoids participant-observation d. was created by Ruth Benedict e. studies cultures but does not focus on the individual