Re: [tied] Was proto-romance a pidgin?

12-07-03 19:44, alex wrote:

> Well, you was the one who said you know the opinion of H. Schuchardt
> about Rom. And you meant I took in vain his name:-)
> OK, as per your formulation:
> "In a letter to G. Weigand, written in 1893, Hugo Schuhardt wrote:
> der Beweis, daß das Rumänische eine romanische Sprache ist, ist noch
> nicht erbracht."
>
> A simply sentence but a sentence which sounds like an opinion about an
> object which is missing some characteristics for being what one should
> like it to be.I did not intended to reopen a subject, I just did not
> remembered at the time you wrote when Schuchardt wrotte that thus, I
> considered I have to defeat why I used his name at that time.

I wish I could see Schuchardt's sentence in its proper context in the
letter in question, but from what I know of his views, he was probably
referring to the South Slavic stratum in Romanian. Schuchardt was a
pioneer of areal studies and he emphasised the role of diffused traits
and areal connections, minimising the significance of genetic taxonomy.
However, I'm not aware of Schuchardt's negating the Romance-ness of
Romanian anywhere in his published works; and he certainly didn't regard
Romanian as a Thraco-Dacian language ;-)

Piotr