tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post3484221852041085552..comments2023-08-28T23:06:44.654-12:00Comments on The Ruminate: English is not North Germanictheswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-53416432846748413232013-03-26T00:59:51.089-12:002013-03-26T00:59:51.089-12:00An interesting perception; The English commentator...An interesting perception; The English commentator Henry Saville, in 1604, while arguing for full political union between his England and Scotland, had an interesting point to make about Scots and the 'linguistic continuum' with English. He placed Scots as less corrupt than English arguing:<br /> <br />"both nations using one and almost the same dialect, to wit the Saxon language. Stevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-53992023637097228882013-03-26T00:50:23.043-12:002013-03-26T00:50:23.043-12:00Thanks for taking so much trouble with something w...Thanks for taking so much trouble with something which, as you say, is clearly problematic from the outset, even before it is read. Did you ever track down what Jan Terje Faarlund was saying? I believe that was just a seminar paper, not even a conference paper, so probably no written version of it exists. But it is worrying when two linguists are peddling such stuff.Viqueenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05144146397028019725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-65108674959045610672013-02-11T03:32:19.212-12:002013-02-11T03:32:19.212-12:00Nice take down. It's a terrible sign when the ...Nice take down. It's a terrible sign when the article makes the comparisons in the modern langauges instead of in the languages that actually existed (OE, ON, ME) back then.<br /><br />By "null allomorphs from Scandinavian for relative pronouns and the complementizer<br />that (Jespersen 1905)," I understood him to refer to the optional omission of relative pronouns and the word <i>Stephen C. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12327519459656394690noreply@blogger.com