Doug Ewell scripsit: > Rather, the debate is whether "gsw" represents only Schwyzerdütsch > per se, or other "Alemanic" languages and/or dialects which are not > usually identified as Schwyzerdütsch, such as Swabian. The problem, as > is often the case, is partly in determining the line between "language" > and "dialect." Almost. It's clear that the name "Alemannic" is a genetic grouping. What's not clear is whether it is *also* the name for a single language. As I pointed out a while ago, "Japanese" is such a case: it names both the Japanese language and the genetic grouping that includes Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages. -- Henry S. Thompson said, / "Syntactic, structural, John Cowan Value constraints we / Express on the fly." cowan at ccil.org Simon St. Laurent: "Your / Incomprehensible http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Abracadabralike / schemas must die!" _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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