back to the future

[Hans Götzsche]

The former chairman of the Danish Language Council, Prof Em Niels Davidsen-Nielsen, a specialist on the English language, once wrote a paper with the title 'Has English a Future?', so maybe the very big problem is whether there will be an English language in the future.

In that case prof Chen will - in the future - encounter some problems when trying to express his views on languages, and the rest of us will, hopefully, be able to contemplate difficult questions like what relationship there may be between tense (aspect) and time; without being troubled with silly ideas like this one.

Best,
Hans

Hans Götzsche (MA,PhD)
Director, Associate Professor
Center for Linguistics
Aalborg University
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9000 Aalborg
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On 26/02/2013, at 17.11, "Nigel Vincent" <nigel.vincent at MANCHESTER.AC.UK<mailto:nigel.vincent at MANCHESTER.AC.UK>> wrote:

At Frans' prompting I post this piece of nonsense for typological (or indeed other!) comment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21518574

Nigel


Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA
Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
The University of Manchester

Vice-President for Research & HE Policy, The British Academy

Linguistics & English Language
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
The University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
UK



http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/staff/nigel-vincent/
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