Patreon Interview with Danny Bate (Patreon)

This Sunday (December 11th) at 10:00 a.m. U.S. Mountain time (check timeanddate.com for what that is in your local time; use "Denver" for my time) we'll have our next Patreon-exclusive live interview, this time with Danny L. Bate, a linguist who has made some waves lately with his very entertaining posts on both his blog and his twitter.

The Zoom link is here ( https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95671624474 ) and the passcode is: syntactic

Bate is going to talk about and take your questions about etymology and etymological research, especially the methods of this research and the relationship between Old Norse and English. As a start to this interview, he suggests "the actual business of doing etymology and how we can say that an English word has an Old Norse origin. By all this I mean the theory behind the conclusions, and all the kinds of evidence (foreign morphology, chronology of the record, arguments from absence) that lead one to believe that an Old Norse origin is the most likely source. As well as giving plenty of examples and diving into the history, your audience might enjoy the insights into how etymology is actually done."

I suspect he's right about that. We'll hope to see you there!

All the best for now,

Jackson Crawford

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