Re: [tied] Re: Creole Romance? [was: Thracian , summing up]

28-06-03 11:41, tgpedersen wrote:

> I'm not insisting on using the word 'creole'. I'm saying that the
> difference between a classical creole situation and that of the
> origin of the Romance languages is one of degrees, not category. How
> else account for the 'worn' look of the Germanic and Romance
> languages compared to, say, the Slavic ones?

So, according to you, the Slavic languages did not undergo
"creolisation" (in the strictly Pedersenian meaning of the term)? And
that despite all those contacts between the Slavs and the Iranians,
Avars, East, West and finally North Germanic speakers, the
Romance-speaking Vlachs, the Greeks, and a dozen other peoples? Not that
I envy other nations their worn-looking languages... but why?

Piotr