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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: Brooks, Mark <</font><a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2009.10.13 (03) [EN]<br><br>Ron wrote: “While all this is non-Lowlandic, the principles at work are relevant.”<br> <br>Have no fear, I’ll bring this around to the lowlands. Okay, let’s take English for example. I presume that it had contact with the Celtic languages already present in what we now call Britain. Did the Celtic languages at the time have a system of noun declensions? I ask, because Old English did, I believe. If they both did, then we would expect them to influence each other, and possibly retain the case system, right?<br>
<br>Now, I realize that English has a more complicated history than that. It had significant contact with Old Norse or Danish which no doubt influenced it. In fact, I had a professor who believed that English went thru a process of creolization with Danish that stripped off much of the case system and gender system. Then, he felt that the Norman conquest put it thru another similar process.<br>
<br>Do y’all have any ideas on that?<br> <br>Mark Brooks</font></div>
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Subject: Language varieties<br><br>Mark, </font></div>
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<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">But Old Danish, an eastern variant of Old Norse, was morphologically far more complex than is Modern Danish.<br><br>Nevertheless, contacts, especially creolization, tends to be a generally simplifying process, even if all languages involved have complex morphologies.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA</font></div>
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