Archaeology: What It Can Teach Us

I have just started making my way through the 2015 Wiley Companion to Ancient Israel. Here's a wee synopsis of the first article by Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, “Archaeology: What It Can Teach Us”: Because of the vastly different data that the two sources of archaeology and the biblical texts give, there is both an ancient Israel and …

New Zealand English 4

This is the fourth post in a series on Hay, Maclagan, and Gordon's New Zealand English. In the fourth chapter, the authors explore NZE vocabulary and related discourse features. Already in the 1679 visit of James Cook to Aotearoa (New Zealand), Māori words such as pā were adopted into the English language. Up until about 1860 though, NZE stopped …

New Zealand English 3

This is the third post in a series on Hay, Maclagan, and Gordon's New Zealand English. In the third chapter, the authors introduce the reader to NZE's morphosyntax. Morphology concerns how different parts of a word work together to create meaning. After something is done it can be undone. The un here signals the reversing of the action, though …

New Zealand English 2

This is the second post in a series on Hay, Maclagan, and Gordon's New Zealand English. After addressing consonants and vowels, i.e., segmental features, features pertaining to a single segment in a word, the authors move on to suprasegmental features. These still concern how New Zealand English (NZE) sounds. They belong to phonetics and phonology, rather than …