By Michael D. Linn
ISBN-10: 0120511304
ISBN-13: 9780120511303
This anthology emphasizes dialects of yankee English and language version in the United States. The editors current unique essays by means of contemporary top investigators, together with articles by means of a few of Europe's top dialectologists, received expressly for this paintings.
Important subject matters featured in Dialect and Language edition include:**Dialect theories: linguistic geography, structural and generative dialectology, and language variation.**The nature of social dialects and language edition, with recognition to women's speech.**Overview of local dialects and region studies.**The nature and learn of the connection among ethnicity and dialects, together with Black, Italian, Irish, Chicano, and Jewish ethnic groups.**The program of dialect reports to education.**Of targeted curiosity to dialectologists, sociolinguists, and English language educators and experts, this paintings offers unique perception into**a common heritage and background of dialect theory**an evaluation of neighborhood geography and quarter studies**the rules of social dialects and language edition from a number of perspectives**an exploration of the connection among ethnicity and dialects o motives of the connection among old and language change**a part on how dialects and language edition can give a contribution to powerful language guideline
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As a related point h e r e , it Other Recent Approaches 37 should be noted that generative grammar is a means only of expressing the facts about a language: it is not concerned with how these facts are discovered. Similarly, generative dialectology is only a way of describing dialect differences: it is not concerned with the 'earlier' major task of dialectology - s u r v e y s designed to collect the data to be d e s c r i b e d . ) If a generative description of phonology consists of a set of ordered rules applying to underlying forms, then clearly two or more such grammars may differ in having different underlying forms andlor a different set of rules andlor a different o r d e r of rules.
It studies partial similarities increasing at the expense of differences (traditionally, substratum and adstratum s t u d i e s , "bilingual dialectology," 1 2 and the like). The opposite of dialectology, which hardly needs a special name, is the study of languages as discrete systems, one at a time. It involves straight description of uniform systems, typologi cal comparisons of such systems, and diachronically, the study of change in systems considered one at a time. 6. It was stated previously that diasystems can be constructed ad hoc out of any number of varieties for a given analytic p u r p o s e .
228-34 (1931) ; r e p r i n t e d i n his Principes de phonologie, Paris, 1 9 4 9 , p p . 343-50. Ferdinand d e S a u s s u r e , Cours de Zinguistique ge%draZe, P a r i s , 1949, p . 20. Andre' Martinet, i n preface t o Uriel Weinreich, Languages in Contact, Linguistic Circle of New York, Publication no. 1 , 1953, xii t 148 p a g e s , p . vii. Languages in Contact, p p . 8f. For an example of synchronic consequences in phonemics, s e e Anton Pfalz, " Z u r Phonologie d e r bairisch-osterreichischen Mundart," Lebendiges Erbe; Festschrift .
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