Re: Ungrammaticalization?
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 19, 1999, 22:24 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Tom Wier wrote:
> > Here're the first few lines from Beowulf (Old English) for comparison:
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> Hardly a fair comparison, that. OE verse is even more impenetrable
> than OE prose.
But is it that much more impenetrable than ME poetry? I find both
fairly easy, when you have the vocab handy. You just need the
vocab for OE more, since the vocabularly underwent a massive
shift changing into ME.
So, it's all relative.
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