Re: [tied] Middle English Plurals

From: tgpedersen
Message: 29349
Date: 2004-01-10

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
> > 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.
>

Rephrasing:
Tok Pisin survived. If it hadn't been for increased literacy in
English and French many more of their creoles would have survived.
Why did all the IE creoles disappear then?

Torsten