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

Sounds fascinating.

Maybe I'll have to brush off my OE as well.  And ON!

Mind you, you'll wind up with something sounding a lot like Modern Frisian
and/or Faeroese.

Wesley Parish

On Thu, 02 May 2002 06:27, you wrote:
> 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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