Marion Gunn: Clarification of Synchronic vs. Historical Linguistics

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

From: Marion Gunn <mgunn at egt.ie>
Subject: Re: Antony Green: Clarification of Synchronic vs. Historical
           Linguistics

GAELIC-L and GAEILGE-A are perfectly appropriate places to discuss the 'the
etymology of some Modern Irish word that doesn't exist in Old Irish...'. mg
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>>From: Antony Green <green at ling.uni-potsdam.de>
>>X-Accept-Language: ga,de,en>To: The Celtic Linguistics List
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>>Subject: Re: Moderator:Clarification of Synchronic vs. Historical Linguistics
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>>"Elizabeth J. Pyatt" wrote:
>>>   "(So etymology is no longer linguistics?)"
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>>>   It is of course, but this brings up an important issue from Andrew
>>>   Carnie's days as moderator. Way back in the ancient days of the
>>>   mid-90's it was noted that there are a variety of Listservs that
>>>   serve the older Celtic languages including continental-celtic and Old
>>>   Irish-L.
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>>But those listservs are not the place to discuss the historical
>>linguistics and etymology of the modern languages.  If I'm interested
>>in some sound change or morphological change that happened between
>>Middle Irish and Modern Irish, or the etymology of some Modern Irish
>>word that doesn't exist in Old Irish, Old Irish-L and continental-celtic
>>are not the place to post the question.
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>>And it's not like our mailboxes are full to stuffing with messages from
>>Celtling anyway!
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>>le meas
>>Tonio
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>>                                                           James D. Nicoll
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