[Corpora-List] Linguistics, corpus linguistics, and diglossia

[Mike Maxwell]

On 12/15/2010 8:35 PM, Angus B. Grieve-Smith wrote:
> As I'm sure you're aware, corpus linguistics is fine; it's just that you
> need a corpus that's representative of what you're studying.

Ay, there's the rub.  What do you do when the corpora don't exist, 
because people have been educated not to write the way they talk?

I'm sure corpus linguists have pondered this.  How do they study things 
like "ain't", "y'all", "youse", "youse-uns", "might could", and other 
non-standard constructions?  Large scale transcription of spoken 
English?  (And English is barely diglossic, compared with languages like 
Arabic or Tamil.)
-- 
	Mike Maxwell

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