Re: Zelandish (was: 2nd pers. pron. for God)

At 19:23 2002-09-19 +1200, andrew wrote:

>On 09/18 10:04  Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > En réponse à andrew <hobbit@...>:
> >
> > >
> > > Yes.  It's native name is Zelandisch (pronounced the same).  In my
> > > journal-keeping it is spoken in the province south of Woepie river,
> > > mainly in Land-in-Siet and Leewell, as well as a few outlying towns.
> > >
> >
> > I'd be interested in some phonological explanations :)) .
> >
>Funny, I thought I had provided some.  Well, let's see...
>
>Zelandish has sounds that are foreign to my dialect of English so I
>don't think about the pronunciation in depth.
Are any features of Zelandisch phonology related to features of any actual 
NZE accent(s)?
In particular I am curious about the loss of the dental fricatives.

[snippus magnus]

> > Funny, I don't know of any Germanic language that combines prepositions and
> > articles :)) .
> >
>Yes, I have to wonder where I get these ideas from!
What about German im = in dem, am = an dem, vom = von dem, auf's = auf das?


>One of the things I forgot to mention the first time is that Zelandish
>uses the definite article for forming the demonstatives, |det deer|, and
>|det heer| or |'theer| /te:r/.  It is declined for case and number.
That's exactly like Swedish _den här/det här, den där/det där_!

[more snippage]

> > Like the Dutch construction "Jan z'n bril": "John his glasses" for "John's
> > glasses"? What I like is that in reduced form it makes it look like the
> > English -'s possessive form :)) (and behaves in the same way, as a clitic).
The same appears in Norwegian _Jon sine briller_.  Note the inflected 
possessive adjective!





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