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A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

floridalinguistics — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:06:36 +0000

This quote has three points: 1) all dialects are of equal linguistic validity, 2) even the standard dialect was (once) a dialect of certain people, so 3) language and power are interrelated. (sociolinguistics)

A’-Movement

floridalinguistics — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:08:35 +0000

A’-movement refers to movement to non-case-assigning positions for interpretive factors, e.g., wh-movement, quantifier raising, and focus/topic movement. (syntax)

A-Language

Lee Ballard — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:03:22 +0000

An interpreter or translator’s best or native language, and the one easiest to translate or interpret into.

A-Movement

floridalinguistics — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:06:56 +0000

A-movement refers to movement from non-case-marked positions to case-assigning positions to check phi-features. It is not driven by interpretive factors. (syntax)

A-Prefixing

floridalinguistics — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:08:59 +0000

Attaching an a in present progressive verb forms, but not to gerunds, in certain dialects of English, e.g., “A storm is a-brewing.” (historical linguistics)

AAVE

floridalinguistics — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:09:26 +0000

African American Vernacular English. A colloquial variety of English used by many Black (and other) Americans. Some linguists consider AAVE to be a de-creolized form of Gullah or other extinct slave creoles. (sociolinguistics)

Abessive Case

floridalinguistics — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:10:10 +0000

A case morpheme that marks its noun in a relationship of distance from or absence of another noun. (morphology, syntax)

Ablative Case

floridalinguistics — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:09:48 +0000

Adposition-like case that shows movement away from a substantive. (syntax)

Accent

floridalinguistics — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:10:36 +0000

Systematic speech variation that separates a group of individuals from other groups of the same language. Generally dialects are more formally defined than accents. (sociolinguistics)

Accusative Case

floridalinguistics — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:11:04 +0000

A case morpheme that marks a noun as being the direct object of the verb. (morphology, syntax)