At 4:52:49 AM on Friday, March 21, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:
> English has all the features of creolisation
Not according to Romaine, as reported in McMahon,
_Understanding Language Change_; she considered thirty
pan-creole features and found that Modern English has very
few of them. From a historical point of view, of course, it
lacks the most basic feature: there is no evidence of a
break in transmission. See also the extensive discussion in
Thomason & Kaufman, Section 9.8. It does not seem useful to
conflate creolization and contact-induced change in general.
Brian