MILROY QUESTIONS
What
is/are the main difference/s between Milroy’s approach and that
of the
Neogrammarians (147-148)?
According to Milroy, what is language change dependent on? (149?)
Why does Milroy say that sound change actually doesn’t exist (150)?
Why
does Milroy disagree with the
Neogrammarians when they say that
sound
change is “blind” (150)?
What is meant
by “lexical diffusion”
(151)?
What does dialect displacement mean? Give an
example. (152)
What are “community” or “vernacular” norms? What term
that we have
used in class
is similar (152)?
What does Milroy mean when he says that h-dropping
may not ever reach
“completion” (153)?
Explain what Milroy means by “speaker innovation” and change in the system.
How
are they connected (153)?
Why isn’t borrowing from one language to
another and the replacement of one
sound by another through speaker innovation with a language as radically different
as the Neogrammarians posited (154-6)?
What is necessary
for a sound to spread (157)?
Why does believing in the ideology of standardization
lead to believing
in “blind
necessity” (158)?
What does Milroy mean by “clean” and “dirty” data (158)?