eMail to my SocioLinguistics prof
Labov says
‘New York poet Frederick Cozzens rhymed shore and pshaw in 1856′
Has anybody done historical linguistics using poetry? That’s so much data. One could study language change over thousands of years. I was just fascinated that rhyme could record phonetics.
- indi

can you help me with some more ideas about language principles?
i hope yuo’ll answer