The word ___________ is an example of both a coined word and a word which has experienced meaning shift
a. bogus
b. butterpillar
c. spam
d. uptight
c
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How did the Lakota prosper from trade after they moved onto the plains?
a. they specialized in hunting buffalo for hides b. they acted as middlemen between American traders and Native groups further west c. they raised horses and traded them to the Americans d. they monopolized all trade with American traders and locked all other plains Indians out
Compared to primitive traits, derived traits tend to be:
A) shared only by distant evolutionary relatives B) ancient evolutionary developments C) more efficient D) widely shared among many different species E) recently evolved characteristics shared by a few closely related species
Ethnographic data show that the switch from food gathering to food production led to a(n) (increase/decrease) _______________ in work hours
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Which of the following would be an acceptable research topic in the field of historical linguistics?
a. Whether or not the speakers of Apache and Navajo once spoke a common language b. Whether or not Apache and Navajo speakers use the same body language to signal gender differences c. Whether or not Apache and Navajo speakers organize their languages using the same syntactical structures d. All the features of a given language as it is spoken at a particular point in time e. Frame substitution to investigate the syntax of a particular language