Re: CHAT: barbarisms

On Wed, 16 May 2001, BP Jonsson wrote:

> At 20:20 2001-05-15 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>
> >My point was that Greek words borrowed into English are stressed according
> >to Henninian principles, and that this had something to do with the
> >dominance of Henninian pronunciation.
>
> Hardly.  Greek loans in Swedish are also stressed according to Latin rules,
> in spite of Latin accentuation thankfully never having been applied to
> Greek here.
This says to me that Swedish has a Latin-like stress system
which all borrowings are subject to. I suspect the same to be
true of the other Germanic languages, hence the Latin-like
stress patterns of English.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga                          dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu

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