Re: [tied] Middle English Plurals

> What I can't get into my head is this: Why is that when English and
> French speakers conquer the world, creoles pop up left right and
> center, but when PIE speakers do the same to Europe and India, and
> similar social conditions ensue, nothing of that kind happens?

What makes you think it didn't? We must allow that there may have been
dialects of PIE which have not survived, and in the same way, there may have
been contact languages, trade languages, Languages for Special Purposes, or
whatever, which no longer exist.

Peter