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  • French lingue

  • Paul W. Brosman, Jr.
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 40 / Issue 2 / June 1964
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 April 2026, pp. 153-155

  • Antoine Thomas first suggested in 1896 that Fr. lingue ‘ling, Lota molva (a fish)’ is of Germanic origin. His discussion of the word, published first in Romania and repeated shortly thereafter in Thomas’ Essais de philologie française, was a sober, concise, but thorough treatment which included all pertinent evidence that has been published on the subject. Later discussions have added nothing. They have either repeated fragments of the evidence cited by Thomas, usually omitting portions of the remainder which tended to balance those they used, or have adduced material which is irrelevant. Virtually nothing will be added here but evidence which would be irrelevant were it not necessary to refute erroneous proposals made later. Thomas' cautious conclusions were hardly more specific than indicated above. He stated that the French word must have been borrowed from Germanic, but could have been taken from English, Flemish, Dutch, or one of the Scandinavian languages. This proposal is clearly preferable to the only explanation previously suggested, derivation from Lat. lingua ‘tongue’ because of the physical appearance of the fish; as far as it goes, it has apparently been accepted without question. The subsequent history of the etymology, however, has been one of confusion and inaccuracy, with the result that its present state constitutes a regression from that at the time of Thomas' article.

  • Grimm's Law in distinctive features

  • John Weinstock
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 44 / Issue 2-Part1 / June 1968
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    22 April 2026, pp. 224-229

  • A set of rules is here presented to account for the changes of Grimm's and Verner's Laws, as well as for the Germanic consonant lengthening. It is shown that the changes which occurred were to some extent predictable from the system out of which they arose. The rules are ordered in such a way that Verner's Law and the consonant lengthening precede the simultaneous development of voiced and voiceless aspirates to spirants.

  • LAN volume 46 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 46 / Issue 3 / September 1970
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 April 2026, pp. b1-b2
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  • Computer Participation in Linguistic Research

  • Paul L. Garvin
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 38 / Issue 4 / December 1962
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 April 2026, pp. 385-389

  • This paper is not designed as a survey of the field of language data processing. My views on this are set forth in some detail elsewhere. Rather, the purpose of this paper is to consider the varying extent to which a computer program can be integrated into the process of linguistic research itself. I am here limiting myself to descriptive linguistics.

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