单词 | dialect geography |
释义 | > as lemmasdialect geography dialect geography n. [compare German Dialektgeographie (1827 or earlier)] the geographical variation of language forms; the study of this. ΚΠ 1906 Scott. Hist. Rev. Oct. 119 A hundred miles in a speculation upon dialect geography must be accepted as degrees of error. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xix. 321 The study of local differentiations in a speech-area, dialect geography, supplements the use of the comparative method. 2008 Hesperia 77 442 Even genuinely shared innovations may not always provide an infallible guide to preexisting dialect geography. < as lemmas |
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