Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > What about natives? The loss of gender makes English a lot easier to
> > learn for its natives, but I'm sure it did not occur for foreigners'
> > benefit. I think you're greatly overmagnifying the importance of
> > foreigners for the development of a language. Just my opinion.
> >
> > =============
> >
> > Never forget what the central issues about a language are the
> substrates and
> > the non native speakers.
> > They actually run that particular language. Native speakers are
> by-standers.
> > This is the Dane Law principle.
> >
> > A.
> >
>

Out of curiosity, are the major changes that occurred in Vulgar Latin,
leading up to the Romance languages, held to be primarily due to the
influence of foreign presence, e.g. Visigoths, Moors (I don't know who
it would be in France)?

Andrew