dialect in novels

[Bob Fitzke]

By all means. The exceptions all arise out of a common ancestor, i.e.,
"the rule".

Salikoko Mufwene wrote:
>
> At 09:14 AM 3/2/2001 -0500, Bib Fitzke wrote:
> >Or, perhaps, when enough of the exceptions coalesce to form a new
> rule
> >of their own; sort of a "rule within a rule". A type of speciation?
> >
> "Speciation" presupposes some sort of common evolutionary history, a
> sort of divergence after evolving together. Would that be the case
> here?
>
> Sali.
>
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