Comments | affix: Come for the Latin, Stay for the Philology

affix

Come for the Latin, Stay for the Philology

Oct 22, 2008 20:24

Ling-phil is like crack. I got an extension on deciding what Latin stuff to study/what Medieval Latin course I want to design/what dissertation I want to do. I got a bunch of books out from the library, which I haven't looked at because I've been merrily going to all sorts of linguistics and philology seminars that I really shouldn't be going to at ( Read more... )

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foxfour October 23 2008, 00:12:36 UTC

1. ergativity is so much cooler in dyirbal, but i am a firm minoritarian.

2. old frisian! :weak at the knees:

3. but theos and deus aren't from that same root, if i recall correctly. i can't find the citation at the moment, but i am reasonably sure.

affix October 23 2008, 00:16:46 UTC

They're both daughters of Indo-European - I didn't mean that one descended from the other!
Apparently there is a pattern of theta paralleling with d. Similarly, aspirated initial vowels with s. But I don't know enough about Greek to say anything with certainty, really.

Minoritarian? Je ne comprends pas...

yeah, yeah, everyone loves Dyirbal. Where's the split ergativity love, I ask you?

foxfour October 23 2008, 00:21:50 UTC

ok, split ergativity is great, but dyirbal has it syntactically, and "the man kissed the woman and left" meaning the woman left just can't be beat.

minoritarian, biased towards minority groups.

there's also something about PIE [f] doing weird funky things in latin and greek, and i think theos might be linked up with that somehow; somewhere i also heard that the cognate in greek of latin deus is Ζευς, (which of course was probably pronounced [zdɛʊs]), but i'm skeptical of that. i really need to find this again; it was some years ago.