Monodialectal vs. Monodialectical

[Donald M Lance]

When I sent my uppity posting on dialectal/dialectical, maybe I was a bit
hard on the original poster (Sorry!!), but I also said "Yes, yes..." and
Sali has given us the best of what I was referring to in my last comment.

Some dialectal discussions might become dialectical -- What are the
dialectics of social engineering that might lead to monodialectalism?

DMLance


on 2/7/02 2:11 AM, Salikoko S. Mufwene at mufw at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:

> I was happy to see Donald Lance's posting yesterday on "monodialectal" versus
> "monodialectical". I had sent a similar posting to the server, but my posting
> was rejected due to a minor change in my address (nothing that should concern
> regular correspondents). However, this morning I was re-reading E. Sapir's
> article on "drift" and noticed that he used "dialectic" for "dialectal." This
> variation reminded me a little bit of that between "syntactic" and
> "syntactical", with the difference that I have never heard syntacticians use
> the second variant. Some months ago, I think Larry Horn had an equally
> interesting posting on "pragmatician" and "pragmatist"--a difficulty that I
> typically avoided by talking about "students of pragmatics," as I found
> "pragmatist" inadequate for the intended meaning but had never heard
> "pragmatician" nor "pragmaticist" before. Did Larry give this option too?
> Well, I am interested in competition and selection in language evolution.
>
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