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Section 5 · 45 answers

Sociolinguistics, historical development and politics

  1. Are there any words understood by speakers of any language in the world?26 November 2014✓ Accepted
  2. Where does English need a lot more effort to say the same thing than another language?26 August 2014
  3. Is spoken English more efficient than other languages?22 August 2013✓ Accepted
  4. What quantity-level of mutual intelligible words are needed for claiming dialects to be languages?4 December 2014✓ Accepted
  5. How does the reaction against gender-specific pronouns relate to a languages' use of gender?17 October 2014✓ Accepted
  6. Are languages that can derive more meaning from context more advanced?28 June 2014✓ Accepted
  7. Has anyone attempted to simulate the creation/development of a language?2 October 2014
  8. Examples of Borrowing Languages29 September 2014✓ Accepted
  9. Languages with multiple forms of the verb "to be"8 September 2014
  10. Have the spelling systems of lingua francas historically been less phonetic than those of native languages?31 July 2014
  11. How does language produce identities?16 June 2013
  12. How far can we decide if there's a code-switching?27 May 2014✓ Accepted
  13. Where did Latin come from?4 December 2014
  14. Did language originate and evolve just as organisms did? As in Evolution by Natural Selection?13 October 2014
  15. Does subject precede object in all natural languages?8 July 2014✓ Accepted
  16. Pro-Drop Typology in Indo-European Languages1 July 2014
  17. Do languages change at different rates?23 July 2013
  18. Does language improve over time, or does it just change?31 July 2013
  19. Size of active vocabulary in hunter gather tribes7 December 2014
  20. Do unschooled people use cases correctly, e.g. in Germany and in Russia?9 December 2014
  21. Why are Native American names translated?11 December 2014✓ Accepted
  22. What is the least changed language in use today?13 December 2014✓ Accepted
  23. How did the same perfect-tense structure become so widespread in Europe?17 January 2015
  24. If the Rosetta stone were to be translated today, would the process be the same as used the first time?5 February 2015
  25. Argot vs Jargon5 February 2015
  26. Globalized mass-media deterring language or dialects differentiation13 March 2015
  27. Does learning ancestral languages enrich a daughter language?12 April 2015
  28. Do all cultures have "taboo language"?19 April 2015✓ Accepted
  29. Is Anglo-English more diverse in terms of accents than, say, French (in France)?5 May 2015
  30. Evolution of Definite Articles in Indo-European Languages12 May 2015
  31. Is Chechen language close to Chinese?12 May 2015
  32. How do concepts folk linguistics and language ideology relate to each other?16 May 2015
  33. Why did Latin fragment so much?13 June 2015✓ Accepted
  34. What's the etymology of 'of' after verbs?26 July 2015
  35. Are American English and British English growing closer together or drifting further apart?30 July 2015
  36. How viable is the Star Wars model of intercultural communication?30 July 2015
  37. Was sanskrit first complex language5 August 2015
  38. How does inflection evolve in languages?5 August 2015
  39. How can case systems emerge diachronically?21 September 2015
  40. Is there a term for errors by native speakers?8 October 2015✓ Accepted
  41. Why are most given names so common?21 October 2015
  42. Does standardisation restrain naturally occurring grammar change?23 October 2015
  43. How to assess the language register of speech?28 October 2015
  44. Is there a phylogenetic tree for all known languages?5 November 2015
  45. Are British and American English two different dialects?19 January 2016✓ Accepted