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Definition of Dialectologists
1. dialectologist [n] - See also: dialectologist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dialectologists
Literary usage of Dialectologists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects: Ionic by Herbert Weir Smyth (1894)
"The rhetoricians and dialectologists of antiquity did not, it is true, draw with
sufficient precision the line between vocabulary and style on the one hand, ..."
2. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"With regard to the dialect, our author holds, against most dialectologists, that
Archilochus did borrow epic forms (-010, *Aaos, etc. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The tendency of modern dialectologists is to divide the Greek dialects into Dorian
and non-Dorian. The non- Dorian dialects, Ionic, Attic and the various ..."
4. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"The same remarks apply with equal force to dialectologists, the results of whose
labours are often worse than useless through their want of proper method. ..."
5. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"This sort of pronunciation is found also in Guatemala, and may well exist elsewhere,
unnoticed by dialectologists. Although the evidence seems clear enough ..."
6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"American dialectologists say that the past forms see and seed are nonstandard
and regionally restricted. Both of them were commonly used by the American ..."
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