User talk:El bes
Re: 'Late' Common Germanic
[edit]Hi El bes. Thanks for your comments and positive feedback on Germanic Parent Language. I wanted to mention to you a scholar whose work I have only recently discovered and am currently enjoying immensely: Graeme Davis PhD., principle lecturer in English Language at Northumbria University. His most recent work (Comparative Syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic, 2006) is definitely breaking new ground in 'Post-Gmc' research. To sum up: He claims to have proven, on the basis of his in-depth analysis of dialectical syntax, that the old daughter 'languages' are, technically speaking, not 'languages' at all, but rather mutually intelligible dialects of one, unified language. For example, one of his conclusions is that the syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic permitted almost perfect mutual intelligibility as late as 1000 C.E. And the ancient sources back him up completely: An Icelandic scholar of the early middle ages reports quite 'by-the-by' that English and Icelandic are, in his eyes, 'the same language'. He throws the inherited tendency to emphasize the differences between the old 'dialects' out the window and takes a fresh run at the subject, with suprising and at time delightful results. This book is filled with good information, and I just checked two more of his out from the library (he has also written a 'Syntax of West Germanic' which makes the same claims and presents the same quality of proof for Old English and Old High German that the other makes for Old Icelandic). I don't want to clog your talkpage with chatter, but I definately recommend Davis to anyone interested in the newest research findings in comparative Gmc syntax. I hope you find the time to check him out. =) Varoon Arya 05:47, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Romania
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--Codrin.B (talk) 06:08, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- Mulţumesc pentru informaţie asta. Here at the en.Wikipedia I am mostly only a reader, not an author. Additionally romanian history is for me too much of an hot topic to write about it myself, although I am very interested in it. Never the less I really enjoy observing the virtual battles the various Romanian and Hungarian users are fighting here. First it is amusing to watch, and second I like the fact, that here in the en.Wikipedia both groups are for the first time in history really forced to talk to each other and to find a compromise between each other's national historiography. --El bes (talk) 03:58, 24 January 2012 (UTC)