Re: [tied] Re: Japanese as a creole language?

At 9:40:55 AM on Friday, March 28, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:

>> However, we may also note French entirely losing
>> Indo-European declension yet it's not a "creole" and
>> fully IE.

> I don't get it. Do you understand 'creole' and 'IE' as
> mutually exclusive? And BTW French is full of Germanic
> loanwords. The Frankish upper class spoke a Germanic
> dialect, so French has passed through the requisite
> sociological conditions for being creolized.

No, because there is no break in transmission. A creole
sensu stricto requires such a break.

Brian