Comments on: Monthly Gleanings, Part 2: October 2011 http://blog.oup.com/2011/11/oct-gleanings2/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: John Cowan http://blog.oup.com/2011/11/oct-gleanings2/#comment-237038 John Cowan Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:12:58 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=19438#comment-237038 And yet surely <i>ripa</i> (or its Proto-Romance descendant) underwent semantic shift from 'bank' to 'river' under the influence of <i>rivus</i>? Come to that, what is the etymology of <i>ripa</i> itself beyond Latin? Your fourth dead-ear example is very much alive. "Was" agrees in number with the antecedent of "whose", namely the child's name. I'd add an explicit resumptive pronoun "she", but it is not grammatically necessary. And yet surely ripa (or its Proto-Romance descendant) underwent semantic shift from ‘bank’ to ‘river’ under the influence of rivus? Come to that, what is the etymology of ripa itself beyond Latin?

Your fourth dead-ear example is very much alive. “Was” agrees in number with the antecedent of “whose”, namely the child’s name. I’d add an explicit resumptive pronoun “she”, but it is not grammatically necessary.

]]> By: Marc Leavitt http://blog.oup.com/2011/11/oct-gleanings2/#comment-237025 Marc Leavitt Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:40:50 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=19438#comment-237025 Professor: Just a reminder: I'd still like to read your view on "wer" and when, where and why it dropped out of the lexicon. Perhaps next month? Regards, Marc Leavitt marc1940@verizon.net Professor:
Just a reminder: I’d still like to read your view on “wer” and when, where and why it dropped out of the lexicon. Perhaps next month?

Regards,

Marc Leavitt
marc1940@verizon.net

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