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Ben Cartlidge
@benjcartlidge
Classicist, linguist, violinist, conductor
May 9, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Huge literature on laryngeals. Some highlights while I wait for my carrots to boil.
Zair's book on H in Celtic has a good introduction on general matters, good counterweight to the wholly sceptical presentation of Lindeman (Introduction to the "Laryngeal Theory"). (1/?) For Greek, Beekes dissertation is still the go to. Add: Peters, Untersuchungen zur Vertretung der idg Laryngale im Gr. Add: Rix, Hist. Gr. Gramm.
Apr 15, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
This morning's horrible realisation is that the word "paw" is not a direct cognate of German "Pfote" (paw). And also German Pfote is not the expected correspondent of Dutch "poot" (paw), Norwegian "pote" (paw). Four problem paws 😔 poor paws So "poot" in Dutch should correspond to German ×Ptoße, English - actually I'm never quite sure what the hell happens in English. ×Peat? Not sure. But it should not be paw, which shld match a German word like ×Pfage. Paw seems to be loaned << French, which was loaned<< Germanic.
Apr 13, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
OK OK OK some hunkatron of a man in a van has just pulled up outside. Maybe this story has a happy ending after all. No, not like that, you filthy beasts.
Aug 2, 2020 • 34 tweets • 5 min read
Grammatical gender, a thread.

This has been going on a while, so I thought it worth articulating what I think and why. I respond to some of the earlier discussions, but I won't link anyone in. They are free to engage, or not, as they wish. This is *a* linguist's view on the matter, neither original nor imbued with particular authority beyond what training and interest have given me, nor asserted on behalf of 'linguistics' as a whole.
May 16, 2019 • 41 tweets • 10 min read
OK so are you ready for a live-tweeted reading of the new #Voynich MS article? Not that it particularly matters, but the paper is written in very curious English: "...following his death, the manuscript’s custodian became his wife Ethel #Voynich (1864–1960)". I see what is meant, but this is not perspicuous prose. /1
Feb 21, 2019 • 61 tweets • 17 min read
Some tweets from tonight's #ACEflagship seminar, in which Ian Hodder (Stanford) shows us his research on Evolution and Entanglement. Entanglements have diachronic as well as synchronic elements: some processes in entanglements have to happen in specific sequences (clay - brick - house - eroded colluvian - mortar - house, eg)