Re: [tied] Middle English Plurals

--- 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