In Dialects^x, Whom^x, Constructions^x

MrPedantic wrote: version non-standard (why? what does this mean?) ; we use the ‘!’ symbol to mark a construction or form as ungrammatical in Standard English (?) but grammatical in a non-standard dialect (so everything that is non-standard is dialect?) . Hi MrP, that one? I...

MrPedantic wrote: Or "Kim and me saw the accident", if you prefer: http://www.cambridge.org/assets/linguistics/cgel/chap1.pdf version non-standard ; we use the ‘!’ symbol to mark a construction or form as ungrammatical in Standard English but grammatical in a non-standard...

Or "Kim and me saw the accident", if you prefer: http://www.cambridge.org/assets/linguistics/cgel/chap1.pdf version non-standard ; we use the ‘!’ symbol to mark a construction or form as ungrammatical in Standard English but grammatical in a non-standard dialect. MrP

Hello Milky, Milky wrote: That kind of covers up the correct-incorrect English, good language-poor language view that normally accompanies prescriptivist texts. I quoted this passage earlier: version non-standard; we use the ‘!’ symbol to mark a construction or...

Hello Milky, Milky wrote: Jim. please tell us what is bunk about the explanation given under the heading "Description versus prescription" here: http://www.cambridge.org/assets/linguistics/cgel/chap1.pdf Out of interest, what do you make of this passage from further on...