Emigrant letters provide a valuable source of data in tracing the development of varieties of English. This has to do with the vernacular nature of these letters, written by speakers who had a lower level of education and whose speech and writing was not guided by considerations of standardness or conformity to external norms of language.
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Emigrant letters provide a valuable source of data in tracing the development of varieties of English. This has to do with the vernacular nature of these letters, written by speakers who had a lower level of education and whose speech and writing was not guided by considerations of standardness or conformity to external norms of language.
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