dialectology in linguistics

[Damien Hall]

Arnold said:

'from Roger Shuy on Language Log recently, following up on a truly gigantic
pin/pen thread:

RS, 7/28/10: Language variability: pin vs pen and beyond:

 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2493 '

Let me just say here (and maybe it's all the better that Roger isn't here
to blush at hearing me say it) that I thought this was a wonderful short
piece, a plaidoyer for the role of dialectology in linguistics and the
relevance of dialectology to linguistics. As a dialectologist at least some
of the time, I saved the piece for future reference, possibly in teaching,
possibly just as a concise statement of what's linguistically good about
dialectology.

Comments are closed on the piece as well, so you can't talk to Roger that
way either!

Damien

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