Re: English syllable structure
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 2:48 |
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Quoting "Y.Penzev" <isaacp@...>:
> Re: Patrick Dunn on Saturday, December 08, 2001 10:38 AM
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> > I'm a philologist, not a linguist.
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> I'm so sorry for my ignorance, but what's the difference?
There's no hard and fast difference, but prototypically,
a philologist is somehow who works with dead languages
and examines texts to try to figure out how better to
understand language as a vehicle of literature. Linguists,
on the other hand, tend to be interested in spoken languages
and seek to make an account for their structure. In reality,
there's a lot of overlap.
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