Re: Englisc (was: [QUESTION] What does IPA L-tilde stand for?)

At 15:23 2002-04-30 +0300, Y.Penzev wrote:

>Btw, do your nouns (and adjectives) decline? Is the system of verb forms as
>analytic as the MnE?
If you mean case declension the answer is no -- apart from the genitive.
Verbs differ from ModEnglish in that the 2nd singular also takes -s (and of
course the pronoun _ðú_).
Weak verbs differ from ModEnglish in that the type _slép--slept_ is the
normal way of forming the preterite, also some verbs that are weak *here*
are strong *there*, like _sceó--scý_ (show--shew).
I'm not decided whether noun plurals end in -s/-z or in -n; since Inglisc
is thought to be based on a Northern dialect they probably should end in
-s.  For the same reason [x] is preserved in _niht_ and other words, and
Inglisc has not undergone the /a:/ > /o:/ sound change of Southern ME, thus
'stone' is _stán_ /ste:n/.

The historical premise of Inglisc is that the Norse won the battle at
Stamford Bridge in 1066, whereon followed a (non-peaceful) partition
between a Southern part annexed to the duchy of Normandy, a Northern
earldom of Norðhumbrlond which was nominally subject to the king of Norway,
and a Midlond aristocratic republic which maintained itself by playing out
the other two against each other.  After the Black Death when Norway fell
into personal union first with Sweden (Swédn! :-) and then with Denmark the
earls of Norðhumbrlond declared themselves independent and begain to style
themselves _Chingh Norðhumbrlondz_ (or _Cyng Norþhumbrelondes_ as the
orthography still was back then).  *There* the Hundred Years' War was
essentially the struggle to reunify England, which was won by the
North.  Thus Inglisc ended up subject to the same influences -- Norse,
Latin, French, Dutch -- but in significantly different proportions.  The
orthography of early printed Inglisc was strongly influenced by (middle)
Dutch.  The present orthography, founded mainly on Old Inglisc practices
was initiated in the 18th century by Georg Hix and other scholars.



/BP 8^)>
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