At a birthday in #trondheim yesterday two people kept playing the 1938 song #erika on their phone. Tried to reasonably explain the problem with it, yet they kept insisting „it’s a love song!“ One of them even asked me if I am Jewish, as he assumed that’s why I’m offended, after they kept bringing the song up the whole evening. At some point I just left, quite angry. First time I encountered this in #norway , still a bit speechless.

#relativization #NIEWIEDERISTJETZT

A nice recent article by Katherine Hodgson uses Armenian data to show what I have formulated for myself after years of working on participles: in relativization, it is often not syntax that matters but recoverability – in short, speakers say what listeners will likely understand: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2020-0035/html #linguistics #typology #syntax #relativeclauses #relativization #armenian