Re: Volcae and Volsci

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> > > All the Germanic languages, with the exception of High
> > > German and Icelandic have been heavily creolized,
> >
> > No. And until you learn what 'creolized' means, I can't
> > even be bothered to read the rest.
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> I think I know what 'creolized' means. The two attempts to disprove
> that central Germanic languages I've seen went like this:
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> Creoles are usually very much transformed,
> phonetically and morphologically.
> Criado > creole is an example.

Creole is a creole language? You know many things.

> Verner's Law runs against creolization.
> We should not be able to retrieve that feature,
> if Germanic were creolized.
> Details should be erased.
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> Arnaud
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Check up Afrikaans. It kept many irregular features and even
introduced some new ones. I think a partly literate elite established
a standard within various Germanic languages early on, which helped
preserve some irregular features, playing the same role as the Dutch
reformed church in the development of Afrikaans (preserving Dutch as a
liturgical language).


Torsten