[Corpora-List] Can corpora help to distinguish a dialect and a language?

Sat Feb 13 22:40:45 UTC 2010

On 2/13/2010 4:35 PM, Yuri Tambovtsev wrote:
> Dear Corpora colleagues, how can corpora help to differentiate between 
> a dialect and a language? Looking forward to hearing from you directly 
> to yutamb at mail.ru <mailto:yutamb at mail.ru>  Yours sincerely as ever 
> Yuri Tambovtsev
>
     They can't, because they can't detect whether the variety in 
question has an army or a navy.

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

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