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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Morphology" 2009.07.21 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div class="im"><font size="2">> </font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Subject:
Morphology<br></span></font></div><div class="im"><font size="3">> As you may remember, I'm a
believer in the theory that spoken language tended to change well before the
corresponding written language when very few people were literate.</font></div></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I remember a couple of years ago somebody in the magazine
"Onze Taal" contradicted the Southern belief that the migration South to North
in the 16th century largely contributed to the uniformization of the Dutch
language.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The writer showed that the <strong>grammar writers</strong> of
the 16th century, inspired by German grammars, reïntroduced elements as gender
differences, flexion etc., wich already had disappeared in spoken language in
the North. Bookprinters folowed the rules set by these language creators and it
gradually became also the civilized version of the
spoken language.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Comparing with the evolution 1000-1500 one can say that the
Dutch language relatively hardly changed in the period 1500-2000. Could this be
explained by scholar standardization?</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Roger</font></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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