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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

> > Creole grammars don't start from scratch (unless you are a

follower

> > of Chomsky or Psammetik). They start from the grammar of the

native

> > language of the new speaker.
>
> I thought Psammetik's experiment did not produce grammatical

speech,

> just a single word, 'bekos'.

Yes. I have overinterpreted my source.

>

> > Don't forget that we know from Jerome that they still
> > spoke Celtic around Trier long after the empire collapsed.
>
> Didn't he also say that it was similar to the language spoken in
> Galatia in Asia Minor? There are actually very few traces of

Celtic

> ever being spoken there. Both statements are seriously disputed.
>

Actually that's what he said. That the languages were Celtic is
deduced from that.

Torsten