In the margin, the analogy / anomaly opposition and geography likewise shaped his conception of the distinction. As he was concerned in the first place with language history, his usage of the terms lingua and dialectus was also steeped in the diachronic interpretation.
He moreover invoked mutual intelligibility in his definitions. This Aristotelian interpretation he made very explicit, tying it to specific linguistic domains such as the lexicon and pronunciation. Driven by language-historical interests, Stiernhielm defined the conceptual pair in terms of substantial versus accidental differences.
Chapter 12 presents the book’s third case study, the Swedish scholar Georg Stiernhielm, a transitional figure.
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