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Crossword for Historical Linguists

by Keith W. Slater1

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Across

1. Shine brightly, after cluster reduction

5. Against, in Southern US English

9. When England became Francophone, plus CCCXXXVI

14. Prefix with “syllabic”

15. Gov. and Bind. is also known as ___ and Par. (anagram)

16. Thin sheets of gold

17. Lexical creation

19. Once more

20. Love, in Italy

21. Yip, after apocope

23. Pre-nasalized feline?

24. Antonym of antonym

26. Ruth’s sister-in-law

28. English dialectal form filling a gap in the nominative pronoun paradigm

30. Latin cognate to पितृ and πατήρ (genitive case)

33. Taxis

36. Succulent plant that can treat burns

38. Enough vowels for English orthographic needs

39. Yoko

40. Bybee: The Evolution of _____

42. Compass heading

43. Vocative addressed to liquid precipitation (anagram)

45. Cried

46. Subcutaneous lump containing liquid

47. He described voicing of proto-Germanic fricatives after unstressed syllables

49. Saudi currency

51. Dialectal Pig Latin: ou-ya ake-ta e-tha igh-ha ___

53. Neogrammarian sound change is always ___ and without 64 across

57. Sustained canine cry

59. Between black and white, after orthographic semivowels are replaced with vowels

61. ___ Shimbun

62. Heavenly hunter

64. Neogrammarian sound change is always 53 across and without ___

66. Niger-____ language family

67. Paternal kinship term’s palindromic partner

68. Tools for unlocking, after metathesis of first two graphemes

69. Powerful counselors in pre-Meiji Japan

70. ___-Burmese, a branch of Tibeto-Burman

71. Author of 1811 Introduction to the Grammar of the Icelandic and other Ancient Northern Languages

Down

1. Desires or enthusiasm, in Spain

2. Foe, after regressive consonant harmonization

3. Above, in Scots

4. Linguists who investigated sociolinguistic aspects of linguistic change

5. ISO 639-3 abbrev. for Old English

6. Germanic sound shift, e.g. bʰ → b → p → ɸ

7. ___ facto

8. Semantic inversion: Spanish masculine form < Latin nimius ‘excessive’

9. Graduate degree in visual arts (acronym)

10. Type of word necessary for reconstruction

11. Temporal focus of historical linguistics

12. ___ Peiros, reconstructor of Proto-Katuic

13. Third singular copula, contracted negation

18. Wine, combining form

22. Van Valin’s phonological framework? (acronym)

25. ___ ___ My Sunshine, after deletion of non-phonemic graphemes

27. Minimal ___

29. Nephew of Théoden of Rohan

31. Maddieson, Mackenzie and Roberts

32. Winter bird feeder item

33. Hair style, after applying the law described in 47 across (ignore stress)

34. Yue-Hashimoto

35. With 44 down, the two major confounders of reconstruction

37. Type of data preferred by experimentalists

40. Form likely to replace went, after the application of 44 down

41. Title of Howard Pyle work: Sir Kay breaketh his sword ____ ____ Tournament

44. With 35 down, the two major confounders of reconstruction

46. Likely result of vowel syncope

48. Van Valin’s grammatical framework (acronym)

50. May be left when an argument is fronted (with determiner)

52. Type of diffusion found, e.g., in a Sprachbund

54. First terrestrial creature to orbit Earth

55. Nautical cries

56. Skating places, after metathesis of final two phonemes

57. Hans Henrich

58. He prays, in Portugal

60. Large-scale public showing of products, works of art, etc., after clipping

63. Lengthy refusal?

65. Tour de France drug (acronym)



1 With grateful thanks to Tim Pulju and Trey Jones, who as usual saved the rest of you from the worst excesses of my ineptitude.


If you can complete the crossword and send your solutions to the editors of SpecGram by February 15th, 2013, you could win a SpecGram magnet. The correct solution and winners, if any, will be announced in the March issue of Speculative Grammarian.



The answers to last month’s “Panama Guzzler” Anagram Puzzle (based on “The Nasal Tone: An Honest Tale”) are below.

Early solution submissions seemed to indicate that this was a puzzle best suited for computational linguists, but the humans made a late rally and nearly evened the score. Below are the human and non-human winners. Due to strict (and frankly mental-substratist) SpecGram policy, only the humans puzzlers are eligible to receive prizes (and they are generally not encouraged to share with their computational companions, since the prizes include magnets). The winners are listed below.

Adam Bernard & findanag.pl Philip Newton & clxvi.2.09.plx Tanjam Jacobson

Honorable mention to human Bryan Allen for an approximately 97.058823529% correct solution, and thanks to Trey Jones & guzzler.pl for help in verifying the original puzzle and solution.

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