COURSE: LINGUISTIC 200 Answer each of the following questions, as instructed, using your own words and examples where appropriate. TOPIC: LANGUAGE VARIATION & amp; LANGUAGE CHANGE 1. Describe what a dialect is as opposed to a language. 2. What is a regional dialect? What social factors contribute to the longevity or stability of regional dialects? 3. Explain why English can be described as the “lingua franca of the whole world.” 4. What exactly is a pidgin as opposed to a Creole? 5. Explain clearly what happens when a pidgin becomes creolized. 6. For what purposes might the study of Historical Linguistics be useful? 7. Explain why living languages change with time. Identify the types of grammatical change that can occur, diachronically. 8. What can possibly happen when a language undergoes syntactic change? 9. Define and explain what dead languages are. Give an example of a present-day “dead” language. 10. Why and how have historical linguists classified languages across the world into families? 11. What exactly is a language family? 12. To which language family does English belong? Short Answers Write brief but accurate answers to the following questions. Use complete sentences. 13. According to the linguist, Steven Pinker, “words are not simply retrieved from a mental archive.” What does he mean by this? How has this claim been supported in linguistics? 14. We have established earlier in our studies that English has an infinite number of sentences. Does English have an infinite number of words? Briefly explain your answers. 15. What is the difference between a stem and a root? 16. Draw up two columns headed Derivation and Inflection. Then list 2 major differences between these morphological processes in terms of affixation. 17. Identify 2 Bahamian English words with their unique morphemic structure? 18. You have noticed that each language in the world possesses a stock of words. This is known in linguistics as its lexicon. Where have words in languages come from? 19. Where have our own Bahamian words come from?