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These are increasingly common usages in American English, and not simply
in "nonstandard" vernaculars. We sociolinguists consider
these to be evolving toward general acceptance. The only form you
cite that's perhaps still limited to Midland or Appalachian dialects is
zero -ly on adverbs, but it's likely spreading also. These are
vernacular "errors," then, but I'd quibble with the use of the
term "error." If by "genuine" you mean
developmental, I wouldn't put them into that category.<br><br>
Beverly Olson Flanigan<br>
Associate Professor of Linguistics<br>
Ohio University<br>
Athens, OH 45701<br><br>
At 10:32 AM 9/4/2002 -0400, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=2>We are currently
coding language samples and are interested in the presence of grammatical
errors. One concern is how to distinguish between 'vernacular use'
and genuine errors. Here are examples that we don't know what to do
with: - regarding the use of "there are"- I am finding
many subjects using it as a contraction in the singular when the plural
form is called for- i.e. "there's more people here then
expected" or "there's 100 people attending the service Also
using "good" instead of "well"- "He ran really
good at the race"? The other issue was dropping "ly" from
adverbs- "he drew nice" or various combinations of both
"she plays real good"<br>
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<font size=2>Any ideas on this? rules to follow?<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>thanks in advance for advice,<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Helen
Tager-Flusberg</font></blockquote></html>