Through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) all of the IU campuses now have access to additional eBooks from Brill. The subject listings available cover a wide variety of disciplines including:
Asian Studies; Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity; Classical Studies; European History and Culture; Middle East and Islamic Studies; Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy; Social Sciences; and now featuring…
There are now 13 titles available in the Language & Linguistics subject, featuring histories and uses of some esoteric and some not-so-esoteric language families like Arabic, Kharia, Hebrew, Vedic, and Salish, to name a few.
Upon exploring the Language and Linguistics title list I came across “Language at Large: Essays on Syntax and Semantics” in which I read a chapter on Aboriginal words and their use in English dictionaries, specifically their etymology and evolution. Want to take a guess at the top five borrowed words?
1. Kangaroo
2. Boomerang
3. Koala
4. Dingo
5. Wombat
They don’t necessarily mean what you’d think, read about them HERE.