Question
During the Holocaust, the “Paper Brigade” smuggled Jewish artifacts to an institute that Max Weinreich founded with the goal of accomplishing this process for Yiddish. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this process of developing codified rules for a language. A book by Max’s son, Uriel Weinreich, discusses how linguistic purism motivates language academies to pursue this process.
ANSWER: language standardization [or answers that indicate selection or development of a standard language; or standardology] (The book is Languages in Contact. The institute is YIVO.)
[10e] Max Weinreich popularized the quip that a language is one of these constructs “with an army and a navy.” Uriel Weinreich pioneered the “structural” form of a field named for these constructs, such as Scottish English or African-American English.
ANSWER: dialect [accept sociolect or ethnolect or structural dialectology]
[10h] A paper by Uriel Weinreich, his student William Labov, and Marvin Herzog outlines five central problems in sociolinguistics, including this question of why changes “take place in a particular language at a particular time.”
ANSWER: actuation problem
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 38% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 80% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| RIT A | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Binghamton | RIT B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |