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If not the process of standardization, what differentiates formal and informal rules?
by morgante 10y ago
If not the process of standardization, what differentiates formal and informal rules?
- alphonsegaston 10y agoFormality, if present, can be equally derived from observation and description of usage, using the linguistic analysis of the kind found in the articles I linked above. Language, when viewed in total, has shared elements and patterns that supersede the narrow focus of prescriptive impositions. It's why linguists can observe things such as that the dropped copula exists in both AAVE and Russian.