Re: Volcae and Volsci

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

> The verb system of Afrikaans definitely resembles
> that of English Creoles, so does the use of double
> negatives vis-a-vis a parent language that doesn't.

The English double negative, apparently inherited from Old English, is
alive and healthy even though deprecated. Has it truly been
extirpated in other Germanic languages? Was it an Old English innovation?

Richard.