Re: Stative/Perfect; Indo-European /r/

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "squilluncus" <grvs@...> wrote:

>
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"

<tgpedersen@...>

> > > wrote:
> > >
> > According to Brøndum-Nielsen, Læsø and Anholt had /w/ everywhere
> (in
> > Anlaut, that is; in general Danish has /w/ or /-U/ (ie. merger
> with
> > previous vowel) in In- and Auslaut.
> > I have no data on Sørlandet.
> >
> > Torsten
>
> The reason for my question is my browsing your previous postings,
> recent and some years back, on the dialect situation in Jutland.
>
> My own roots are on the Swedish West Coast which is a part of the
> Scandinavian dialect "Skagerack-Kattegatt-målet", the main
> characteristic of which is voicing of intervocalic stops (köba,
> gada, kaga) found in Danish, Scanian, the whole present Swedish

West

> Coast and Southern Norway.
>
> In the north of Halland (from Tvååker between Falkenberg and
> Varberg) /w/ is still alive in dialect. This is also the case in
> the adjacent counties (? = härad) Mark and Kind in Westgothia,
> though lack of intervocalic voicing makes these dialects, Marbo

and

> Kindbo, definitely Swedish.
>
> It was my guess that the islands between Jutland and Halland would
> also have anlaut /w/.
> Since you have access to Bröndum-Nielsen, I would be grateful if I
> could extend my question also to Djursland.
> Next time I go to town I will try to get information about

Sörlandet.

>

Djursland indeed does have w- in Anlaut everywhere, which I forgot
to mention. Further Bornholm has sw-, kw-; further a line east/west
divides Scania (most of Brøndum-Nielsen's maps cover the old Danish
lands, South Slesvig, Sacanian, Helland and Blekinge), and north of
it intial clusters, eg. (by memory) dw-, tw- have w-. I'll look it
up.


Torsten