Problem
A. In 1996, the Oakland School board set off a controversy with a resolution to recognize AAVE (or "Ebonics" as a "primary language" of African American students in the district. Describe the support offered by linguistics for this resolution, and the obstacles which this resolution faced. In your opinion, can the support successfully challenge these obstacles?
B. Nonaccommodating bilingualism is a very interesting response to a particular context. Describe a case of nonaccommodating bilingualism, and identify the context of this practice.
C. Briefly describe the process of recreating a proto-language. Explain what we can hypothesize as part of this process, and why we must mark proto-language morphemes with an asterisk rather than transcribing them as we do living languages.
D. Compare and contrast transitional and stable bilingualism. Discuss the role of language ideology in these two sorts of bilingual situation.