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

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

>
> 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

I wish I would see the context too. As for the rest, I am not aware of
any linguist beside Reichenkron which considered Romanian to be simply
the Dacian language with the respectable Latin influence. See his work
"Das Dakische rekonstruiert aus dem Rumänischen". I don't agree either
with Reichnekron in many points and today I can say just only one thing.
There is for sure a lot of lexical material which was considered wrongly
to derive from Latin.

Alex