Re: (ptk vs bdg)

At 5:27:48 AM on Tuesday, March 27, 2012, Piotr Gasiorowski
wrote:

> W dniu 2012-03-27 08:54, Brian M. Scott pisze:

>> A possibly independent instance in a Germanic dialect is
>> the so-called Northumbrian burr:

>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumbrian_Burr>.

> It's *certainly* independent *if* the spread of uvular /R/
> elsewhere is really to be dated in the 18th century, since
> by the early 18th century the Northumbrian burr had
> already come to be regarded as a long-established regional
> shibboleth. Here is an article in which I argue that it
> may go all the way back to Old Northumbrian.

> http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/sap/files/42/05Gasiorowski.pdf

Ah, thank you: I *knew* that I'd seen more on the subject
somewhere. I've had that paper in my files for three and a
half years now -- but unfortunately, misfiled. Yes, I found
that quite a convincing case.

Brian