Re: "Register" a grammatical term
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 18, 2008, 18:35 |
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caeruleancentaur wrote:
>> Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
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>> Could someone with access to Trask's and Crystal's
>> lingyuistic dictionaries be so kind to look up how
>> they define "register" as a grammatical term?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Crystal:
> (1) A term used in phonetics to refer to the voice quality produced
[etc. snipped]
Charlie has given you in full the two definitions given by Crystal.
Neither of them are, as you will have read, are uses as _grammatical_ terms.
I can give you Trask's definition even more succinctly. It's zero! That
is, he doesn't list the word at all.
It would seem that neither of these authors know "register" as a
grammatical term. If it is now used as a grammatical term, its absence
in these two works surely suggests this usage is quite recent -
probably, I'd guess, associated with some specific theory of grammar.
--
Ray
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