Re: effects of prescriptivism


Ar an t-ochtú lá de mí Eanair, scríobh Peter T. Daniels:

> > > No, the Grimms had no interest in synchronic linguistics, in German or
> > > Germanic dialects, and so on.
> >
> > Pray tell how someone with no interest in German comes, voluntarily, to
> > write an etymological dictionary of the language?
>
> First of all, they didn't come close to doing so;

They didn’t finish it, they certainly started it, voluntarily. They had a
demonstrated interest in German, Germanic dialects and Germanic languages.

> has the last volume been published yet?

1960.

> Second, "etymology" is the opposite of synchronic linguistics.

And? Diachronic linguistics is ruled out from linguistics because you say
so?

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