Re: Grammatical Recursion

From: Brian M. Scott (b.scott_at_csuohio.edu)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:51:10 -0500

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:35:43 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in
<news:41C44041.5842@worldnet.att.net> in sci.lang:

> Pieter Z. wrote:

[...]

>> P. --> Did you fail to notice that "Olla vogala" from my response in
>> another thread is not a song at all but just a spurious line? It just
>> struck me to my great shame. I must have been thinking of Hadewych
>> somehow, and I probably got her spelled wrong but I'm not gonna look it
>> up just now.

> "Olla vogala" means nothing to me, and I didn't notice it at all.

It's from the one lonely line that survives from the
earliest period of Old West Franconian (West Flemish, 11th
century):

   hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan hinase hi(c)
   (e)nda thu w(at) (u)nbidan (w)e nu
   
   all the birds have begun nests except for you
   and me -- what are waiting for?
   
(Quoted from Orrin Robinson's Old English and its Closest
Relatives.)

Brian

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