Final call for papers: ADS 2008 Chicago

[Dennis R. Preston]

Larry,

"Anymore" might be a candidate, but its perception as a nonstandard
is usually across dialect/sociolect boundaries, while the "never"
standard/nonstandard contrast is very strong within speech
communities.

This is a little like /l/ vocalization in southern speech. It is
stigmatized  by non-Southerners, but southerners themselves
stigmatize only full /l/ deletion within their own speech
communities. Something like /hEwp/ (where /w/ is a glide replacing
the /l/) for "help" is not locally stigmatized in places like
Louisville, but /hEp/ very strongly is. I suspect this is lexical
with "help," however.

Now that I think about it, this local/nonlocal judgment distinction
surfaces in 'pin-pen' conflation as well. Northerners make fun of it
in general, but plain old /pIn/ for "pen" will not get you chuckled
at as a hillbilly in Louisville, but if you tense the vowel and give
it a little centering offglide (as in the Southern Shift), you are
from the boondocks and will be regarded as sich (ooops, I mean such).

dInIs

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>At 11:29 AM -0400 8/7/07, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>>Frank,
>>
>>Is this the prescriptivist's recommended reversal of 'shall' and
>>'will' when "strong determination" is intended (as your caps might
>>indicate), or it simply a thumbing of the nose at the
>>prescriptivists' recommendation for "shall' after first persons? Such
>>items belong to an "I can't tell what you're up to" category. For
>>example, "never" is apparently standard in "I never went there" for
>>"At no time in the past did I got there" but nonstandard for "I
>>didn't go there." There must be more.
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>"whenever" (standard when you're quantifying over generic events [=
>'on any occasion when', 'at whatever time that'],
>nonstandard/mountain/southern/Scots-Irish derived [the last pointed
>out by Michael Montgomery] when used episodically [= 'on the
>particular occasion when'])
>
>possibly--depending on how elastic the boundaries of the category
>are--"anymore" (in negative/negative-like vs. unlicensed contexts)
>
>LH
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>>Have we classified such goodies
>>arnold?
>>
>>dInIs
>>
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>>>Allan
>>>
>>>I WILL submit an abstract for ADS Chicago, Jan 2008.
>>>
>>>
>>>Title:
>>>
>>>"[The] medium is [the Text] msge: Cell Phones, Youth, Communication"
>>>
>>>
>>>Details in abstract, in preparation.  Will send ASAP.
>>>
>>>Thanks much for the reminder.
>>>
>>>I believe I need to renew my ADS membership.
>>>
>>>Frank
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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of English
15C Morrill Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-353-4736
preston at msu.edu

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