Taming the Vernacular: From Dialect to Written Standard LanguageJenny Cheshire, Dieter Stein This text examines the differences between standard and nonstandard (or colloquial) varieties of Dutch, French, English, Finnish, Galician, German and Spanish. It looks at syntax, dialects, and spoken colloquial varieties of language, which is acknowledged as an area of growing interest. |
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nature versus culture | 13 |
Syntax and varieties 365 | 35 |
Involvement in standard and nonstandard English 68889 | 68 |
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adjective adverbial anaphoric Cambridge century chapter Cheshire clause clitic colloquial considered construction context contrast dialects and standard Dictionary Dieter Stein discourse discussion dispreferred distinction Dutch elements English Dialect example expression fact factors Finnish formal forms French function Galician genitive grammar grammarians grammaticalization guage Helsinki inflected inflected infinitive informants interpretation Irish English koiné Laitinen left dislocation linguistic Low German marker marking mass nouns meaning Milroy modal morphological nec-verb never nominative nonstandard varieties norms noun phrase occur oral patterns phonological pitää plural second person pragmatic present-day principle question reference Rohdenburg Scottish English semantic singular social South African English Spanish speakers speech act spoken Finnish spoken language spoken standard standard English standard German standard language standard variety stress clashes structures styles syntactic syntax texts tion typical usage variation varieties of English verb vernacular words written language written standard youse