Re: [tied] Re: Creole Romance? [was: Thracian , summing up]

28-06-03 12:14, tgpedersen wrote:

> Exactly. Why? As usual you hit the nail on the head. 'Why?' is what I
> asked myself, 'have Romance and Germanic lost so much inflection, so
> many paradigms?'. Not that I'm ungrateful for all the lectures on
> what a creole should be, that people have dumped on me, but why are
> those language families so, comparatively ... (deep breath) creole-
> like?

So much for your thought processes. Now, perhaps you could answer my
question in a straightforward manner. Why do you think Slavic escaped
"creolisation"? (Here again I'm using the word in the strictly
Pedersenian sense.)

Piotr