| 单词 | rhenish fan |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRhenish fan Rhenish fan n. [after German rheinischer Fächer (1926 or earlier)] Linguistics a fan-shaped bundle of isoglosses separating Low from High German in the Rhine valley. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [noun] > linguistic geography or dialectology > isogloss > specific bundle of Rhenish fan1933 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xix. 343 Some forty kilometers east of the Rhine the isoglosses of the great bundle that separates Low German and High German begin to separate and spread out northwestward and southwestward, so as to form what has been called the ‘Rhenish fan’. 1961 R. E. Keller German Dial. 249 The Rhenish Fan..was seen as the result of a linguistic thrust from south to north along the River Rhine. 1977 Word 28 233 The ‘Rhenish fan’ has its counterpart in the isoglottic bundles separating North and South Wales. 1994 A. M. S. McMahon Understanding Lang. Change ix. 229 It is in areas like these, which have also had a long history of settlement, that complex patterns of isoglosses like the Rhenish fan are characteristically found. < as lemmas |
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