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Download full textLegum, Stanley Emanuel – 1975
Constraining linguistic metatheory by demanding that it allow the construction of grammars for all the frequently occurring idiolects of standard American English is shown to narrow the choices among competing theoretical positions. In this way data from a nonhomogeneous speech community are used to illuminate rather than cloud a theoretical…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Linguistic Theory, North American English
