[Corpora-List] Linguistics, corpus linguistics, and diglossia

[Angus B. Grieve-Smith]

On 12/15/2010 6:40 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote:
> I was talking this afternoon with a lexicographer who is working on 
> western Panjabi (the variety--or varieties--spoken in Pakistan, and 
> written in a Perso-Arabic script).  She was saying that corpus 
> linguistics was exactly the wrong way to build a dictionary of 
> colloquial Panjabi, because of a somewhat diglossic situation: the 
> written/ standardized language is not what most people speak.
     As I'm sure you're aware, corpus linguistics is fine; it's just 
that you need a corpus that's representative of what you're studying.

-- 
				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
				grvsmth at panix.com


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