LIN256H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Early Modern English, Sociolinguistics, Dependent Clause
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What are 3 sociolinguistic facts? (1) language varies (2) language changes (3) language conveys social meaning. What are some examples of cross-linguistic (inter-speaker) variation: language varies with respect to the specific realization of abstract, universal structures. Don"t worry, there will be someth[ n] on your desk . I hung aroun[ ] cos i was destined to take him. He was destine[ ] for me to take him aroun[ ]. : (iii) i didn"[t] get to see much of what wen[?] on down there", the token destined to doesn"t count because some context obscure variation. And i"m like i"m having a beer! : (ii) he goes, dude, you"re not helping. and i"m thinking true , (iii) then the professor shouted, you all get as! , all these variants function to introduce reported speech. Linguistic rules": deterministic: the output of the rule is predictable & categorical, given the context i. e. , canadian raising. /aj/ [ j] / before a voiceless consonant;
