UGA Linguistics 2100 Extra Credit Assignment PDF

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End of the year Linguistics 2100 extra credit assignment for Instructor Kit. Earns 10 points on a quiz or five points on a test....

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1. Many of the attitudes in earlier grammar books like this one do not correspond with the attitude of linguists today to language variation, language change, and linguistic diversity. What differences do you notice? 2. Observe the differences between the English of the author or any of the texts they cite (the section headed "CHANGES AND SPECIMENS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE" is especially good for this) and the way you speak English. Find one lexical or morphological variation, one syntactic variation, and one semantic variation. 3. The list above is missing a type of language change. What type is it missing, and why would I leave it out of the list when asking about a written text? 1. In this earlier grammar book, the author writes about how he, “prepared and published, for the use of schools, a duodecimo volume of about three hundred pages; which, upon the presumption that its principles were conformable to the best usage, and well established thereby, I entitled, ‘The Institutes of English Grammar.’” This idea of the “correct” use of grammar for English leaves no room for language variation among different parts of the country or any other factors that may cause language variation. 2. Syntactic: being formed at different times, in es, is, ys, or s, like the plural; 3. Sound change is the type of language change missing from the list. This type of change is left out when discussing written text because sound change is solely based on the audible sound of a word. Therefore, unless the author included an IPA of the changes of the word, this would not be included in written language....