nonstandard
Adjective
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Adjective
nonstandard
- Not standard.
- Synonyms: unstandard
- Antonyms: standard
- (linguistics) Not conforming to the standard variety, or to the language as used by the majority of its speakers.
- The resulting sequence of covert wh-pronoun + Complementiser has an overt counterpart in nonstandard varieties of English, as the following example (recorded from a BBC radio programme) illustrates:
(91) England put themselves in a position [whereby that they took a lot of credit for tonightʼs game] (Ron Greenwood, BBC radio 4)
- The resulting sequence of covert wh-pronoun + Complementiser has an overt counterpart in nonstandard varieties of English, as the following example (recorded from a BBC radio programme) illustrates:
- Synonyms: substandard
- Italian: non standard
- Italian: non standard
- Russian: нелитературный
nonstandard (plural nonstandards)
- Something that is not standard.
- 2008, Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Vista (page 438)
- Unlike the TV standard we are all accustomed to, the Web is the wild, wild West of video nonstandards.
- 2008, Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Vista (page 438)
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