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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Cindy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> histling-l <histling-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Evie Coussé<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 19 March 2021 7:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> histling-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Histling-l] Deflexion query<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The term strikes me as very common in Dutch. I looked for it as in some historical grammars of Dutch and found it spelled as “deflexie” in the index
of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Marijke van der Wal (1992)
<i>Geschiedenis van het Nederlands</i>. Houtem: Spectrum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Marijke Mooijaart & Marijke van der Wal (2008)
<i>Nederlands van Middeleeuwen tot Gouden Eeuw. </i>Leiden: Vantilt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">These references are not very old but they might be an indication that Muriel Norde maybe got the term from a Dutch linguistic tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>För </b>Nigel Vincent<br>
<b>Skickat:</b> den 19 mars 2021 09:27<br>
<b>Till:</b> Cynthia Allen <<a href="mailto:cynthia.allen@anu.edu.au">cynthia.allen@anu.edu.au</a>>;
<a href="mailto:histling-l@mailman.yale.edu">histling-l@mailman.yale.edu</a><br>
<b>Ämne:</b> Re: [Histling-l] Deflexion query<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I was intrigued by your query and took a quick look at the indexes of some volumes to hand on my shelves. I found nothing in the immediately obvious places but then
came across multiple references (with the spelling 'deflection') in the index of Yakov Malkiel 'From Particular to General Linguistics. Essays 1965-1978'. This a collection of his papers and the earliest that uses the term there is from 1968. He treats it
as an ordinary term with no special attempt to define it so I guess it was current well before that time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> histling-l <<a href="mailto:histling-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu">histling-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> 19 March 2021 8:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:histling-l@mailman.yale.edu">histling-l@mailman.yale.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:histling-l@mailman.yale.edu">histling-l@mailman.yale.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Histling-l] Deflexion query</span><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Greetings,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I’ve been trying to nail down the earliest use of ‘deflexion’/’deflection’ in reference to loss of inflection/inflectional categories. It is not a widely used term, but
has been prominently used in the early 2000s by Muriel Norde and then myself, for example. The earliest reference I have found is in Trask’s (2000)
<i>The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics. </i>I would like to find out who first used this term, and would be grateful for any earlier references.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Dr Cynthia L. Allen FAHA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">Emeritus Fellow, Australian National University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">Baldessin Precinct Building Room W2.09<o:p></o:p></p>
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