This is most definitely true now but I suspect that
Jutish showed some degree of transition. Remember that
the Jutes, Angles and Frisians were run out of Jutland
by the Danes sometime around 400 AD
When did the pre vs post position dichotomy of
articles occur? What may have caused it? Could it be
due to substrate? Are there other such elements of
Scandinavian that are due to substrate? If so, it is
from Saami or pre-Uralic?
BTW, I've read that the only pre-Uralic substrate word
that made it from Saami into Scandinavian is the root
of Spanish morsa "walrus". Are there others?
--- tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > I would question the lack of dialectal continuity
> > between Scandinavian & Western --that's true now
> but
> > Scandinavian overran Jutland c. 400 and eliminated
> any
> > transitional dialects.
>
> That can't be true. There are some rather heavy
> NW-SE dialect lines in
> Jutland, eg. preposed definite article in most of
> Jutland vs. suffixed
> in the rest of North Germanic.
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