<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I'd like to remind everyone that that word order, as Johanna Nichols puts it, is "not particularly stable in families and highly susceptible to areal spread" (Nichols 1992).</span><div>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Best,</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Alexander Bochkov<br>
</font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Johannes Reese <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johannesreese@gmx.de" target="_blank">johannesreese@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-size:12px;color:#1f1c1b">>while old Saxon  </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-size:12px;color:#1f1c1b">>patterns with Old Low German and Gothic</span></p>
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</div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Dear Jóhanna,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Just a little by-question: What is the difference between Old Saxon and Old Low German? Do you mean Old Low Franconian with the latter?</p>

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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Regards,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Johannes Reese</p></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><font face="georgia, serif">Alexander Bochkov</font><br>

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