I think everybody code-switches to some degree, as long as there is some sort of reason to do so in their society. It doesn't mean they use two dialects just as a bilingual uses two languages, because people often respond to dialect as if it

Although its content is in dispute, the (click here -->) Wiki article on BrE and AmE differences is a good place to start. It describes major categories of differences in spelling, verb morphology, vocabulary, etc. Some vulgarisms in one

So you know where to find such information in Spanish? ... be quite easy to find such a list. Ross Clark . probably. . googling pages in Spanish for "accidentes gramaticales" will give you quite a bit of informative pages. . ... there

otf: How would you call in ENglish all types of ... translates as "what happens as a result of grammar rules" So you know where to find such information in Spanish? Perhaps you could quote us a very small portion of ...

Why do the believers of evolution always take an example ... take a *proven* example from evolution and make your point. Whales. Is this a magic "evolutionary" word, Joe? Tell me about whales. (Funny, I always thought of whales as one of

Hello! I'm an undergraduate student and I'm obliged to deliver a so called "linguistic file" which shall provide rudimentary examples of applying linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax; three examples each) to everyday

You mean he thinks the sentence or VP modifier "certainly" modifies "is"? You'll find the difference between verb-modifying adverbs (degree adverbs like "completely", "strictly") and VP- or S-modifying

Dylan Nicholson wrote on 03 Jun 2004: Why do we say that "I will leave tomorrow" is in the future tense but "I leave tomorrow" or "I am leaving tomorrow" are not? Because it's a special case that doesn't

Dylan Nicholson wrote on 03 Jun 2004: Most grammar books will identify more than two tenses because ... each verb has only two indicative forms: present and past. So who gets to decide that a tense is identified solely by a 'verb ending'?

If you're not sure, you shouldn't make such sweeping statements. It doesn't matter whether the words are bisyllabic or not ... your point here. Plus, there are many dialects of BrE: are you sure you can speak for all of them? No. Huh?