Robert (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From:
| Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 10:40 am: |
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I was just wondering if one were to segment Irish (by years into periods) 300-500 600-800 900-1100 1200-1600 1600-1850 1850-1950 1950-Now what would eb the main featetures that would summ it up? I'll get the ball rolling: 300-500 (loss of locative into dative; start of lention and eclipsis) 600-800 (rise of lention & eclipsis as morophological; weakening of nominative to dative) 900-1100 (verbal complexity reduction; Old Norse influence; less infixed pronouns) 1200-1600 (weaking and loss of neutral gender; in some dilects a loss of 'nuetral consonants'; Norman French influcnce; seperation from Socts Gaelic) 1600-1850 (Loss of nominative then the accusitive; English influence;) 1850-1950 (Weakening of Dative) 1950-Now (phonetic simplification; gramtical simplifiction; loss of dative and weaking of genitve) Any other things of interest? |