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LANGUAGE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY

LANGUAGE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY

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Variability of language. Individual and dialectic variations. Time variation or “drift.” How dialects arise. Linguistic stocks. Direction or “slope” of linguistic drift. Tendencies illustrated in an English sentence. Hesitations of usage as symptomatic of the direction of drift. Leveling tendencies in English. Weakening of case elements.

  Dialectic

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