1. LINGUISTICS II Undergraduate Course Asst.Prof.Dr.Azamat Akbarov

2. You makin’ sense, but you don’t makin’ sense! Finite verb Sequence do+be No human language is fixed, uniform or unvarying Varies – in terms of the pronunciation of a language, the choice of words and the meaning, even syntactic construction American speech different than the British, than the Australian

3. Speakers differ in their language – they speak different dialects of the language What’s is dialect? It used in various ways Regional dialect – distinct form of a language spoken in a certain area Ozark dialect – Appalchian dialect

4. Certain linguistic features different than other forms of English Social dialect – spoken by members of socioeconomic class Working class dialect in England, ghetto languages in the United States Ethnic dialect – Yiddish English – Eastern European Jewish