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 1. modren metathesis (2)



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Date:  Wed, 22 Dec 1993 19:08:10 CST

From:  salikoko mufwene <mufw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>

Subject: Re: modren metathesis



>Sali-

>I think the one-rule-per-function (and hence different grammar or lect) is an

>assumption of variationist studies within the implicational (or

>Bailey-DeCamp-Bickerton) model, more often associated with pidgin/creole

>studies. I'm not sure that the same assumption lurks beneath quantitativist

>approaches to variation which find a 'richer' life for alternatives,

>presumably in the same grammar.



Dennis:

 May I ask you where your classification system places studies of African

American English? in the category of pidgin/creole studies? Any standard

variationist analysis of aspects of this variety may be found guilty of the

monolithic assumption, starting with segment deletion rules. Yet I see this

particular research area as having played a central role in the development

of the variationist paradigm--do forgive my outsider-ignorance.

Sali.

Salikoko S. Mufwene

Linguistics, U. of Chicago

s-mufwene[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uchicago.edu

312-702-8531