Diglossia 1 Page 1 CHARLES A. FERGUSON------------------ Diglossia 1 In many speech
communities two or more varieties of the same language2 are used by some speakers under …

3 This thesis is not new: the term'koine'has been used before in approximately this sense for
the history of the Arabic language; cf. AIEO 14.7 (1956), Enc. of Islam2 1.574 Col. 1, line 19 ff…

In this chapter I attempt to make explicit a number of working assumptions about
conventionalization that seem to be implicit in sociolinguistic research touching on dialect variation, …

Although grammatical agreement or concord is widespread in human languages, linguistic
theorists have generally treated agreement phenomena as secondary or even marginal. All …

First published in 1977, this book draws together various contributions on the area of
speech used by parents with their children. Numerous perspectives on the topic include the …

… For discussion of a sound change in a framework of this kind see Ferguson (1971). Linguists
… Ferguson and Garnica 1973) and for this reason use it as a starting point in our attempts to …

BACKGROUND O CCASIONALLY linguists have turned their attention to the description of
marginal systems within languages, such as animal calls, hesitation forms, or baby talk. Such …

… FERGUSON The purpose of this paper is to examine one feature of human language in a
general typological framework in order to obtain some insights into the notion of grammatical …

It has previously been thought that there was a steep Cretaceous and Cenozoic radiation of
marine invertebrates. This pattern can be replicated with a new data set of fossil occurrences …

… Negative attitudes of the American speech community toward the use of baby talk have
been recognized (Ferguson 1964) and the present study gives evidence of negative attitudes …