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

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 18:28
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^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.net (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarokko\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)

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