• According to Whorf, how are language and thought related? Illustrate your answer with one of the examples he discusses. (300 words) – (read Whorf 1940)
• If Spanish/Portuguese/German/French (please choose one), not English, speakers had been tested by Winawer et al., would Russian speakers still have shown an advantage over them, and if so,
how and why? If not, why not? [300 words] (read the winawer et al)
• Discuss your reaction to John Bishop and his accent in the context of the reading (250 words) (the links are below)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k2b32 http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/95sep/ets/labo.htm
• What is a double negative, and why, according to the reading, are double negatives viewed negatively by speakers of English? (read Myth 14 (Double negatives are illogical”, by Jenny
Cheshire)
• Read Chapter 1 from Tallerman (1998) (pay particular attention to sections 1.1.1, 1.2.1, 1.2.2 and 1.3) and then aswer the following questions
(a) What is a prescriptive grammar?
(b) How do basic/unmarked word orders and marked ones differ?
(c) Provide one argument that the underlying structure of I charged up the battery and of I charged up the street is different
• Do exercise 6.2 in pp. 13-4 in Abels (2014)
There are 6 questions to be done. each question is based on a reading. I will upload the readings and a word document with all of the questions that need to be answered. the questions are no
longer then 300 words each. you can do them in one word document but please make a distinction between each question. There is no need for introductions or conclusions, just simply answer the
questions.Thank you

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