Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of dialects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That branch of philology which examines the nature and relations of dialects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the study of
dialects
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects
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Examples
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I think that people who care about English — especially those who have seriously studied its history, grammar, dialectology, etc. — have the right to influence others, by the example of their own usage and by specific recommendations.
None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Two of his students have had bibliographies written for his class published; one, Michael Fody, had his paper appear in the outstanding journal of the world in the field of dialectology, Orbis (Belgium)
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Is there some subtle complication in Hawaiian orthography or dialectology that I'm missing?
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The hierarchical ranking of speech, with the classical languages of Western Europe at the summit of human culture, was giving way to the relativism of scientific dialectology: philologists testified that rural and other nonstandard dialects were both legitimate objects of research and valuable enrichers of standard speech.
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Words for "snow" play a disproportionately important role in understanding the history and dialectology of the Navajo language.
Research Blogging - All Topics - English Gambler's House teofilo 2010
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Words for "snow" play a disproportionately important role in understanding the history and dialectology of the Navajo language.
Research Blogging - All Topics - English teofilo, Gambler's House 2010
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A cautionary note is in order here: with the passage of time, certain early compendia on Greek grammar and dialectology have tended to become neglected or even forgotten by succeeding generations of scholars, despite the value of these works not only for linguistic insight but also for a conscientious assimilation of the extant grammatical and dialectal testimonia of the ancient world; representative of such compendia are those of Lobeck 1853/1862 and Ahrens 1839/1843.
languagehat.com 2009
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[17] Apollonius wrote more than thirty treatises on questions of syntax, semantics, morphology, prosody, orthography, dialectology, and more.
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The final word on wab goes to Dr. Armin Schwegler, a professor in the University of California, Irvine's Department of Spanish and Portuguese who specializes in dialectology and Spanish in the United States.
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The final word on wab goes to Dr. Armin Schwegler, a professor in the University of California, Irvine's Department of Spanish and Portuguese who specializes in dialectology and Spanish in the United States.
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