From: alex_lycos
Message: 21288
Date: 2003-04-27
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From: "P&G" <petegray@...>
> (1) By using the word "pidgin" you apparently mean more than substrate
> influence. Unless your understanding of "pidgin" is different from
mine,
> you are asserting that proto-Romance uses Celtic vocabulary in
Latin-based
> structures, or Latin vocabulary in Celtic-based structures, or some
mix
> Either claim is bizarre. Both the structures and vocabulary of
> Proto-Romance are thoroughly and clearly Latin. Even the phonology
develops
> through expected and normal channels
Well.... there are several scholars which admit the structure of
Romanian is not the Latin one. For the phonology there are rules and
rules.
For instance Schuchard will say something about an another structure of
the Rom. Lang. as the structure of the Latin. Unfortunately, by myself I
haven't read what he wrote. I intend to do it ...
Alex