Re: Volcae and Volsci

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56853
Date: 2008-04-06

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>


> > All the Germanic languages, with the exception of High
> > German and Icelandic have been heavily creolized,
>
> No. And until you learn what 'creolized' means, I can't
> even be bothered to read the rest.

I think I know what 'creolized' means. The two attempts to disprove
that central Germanic languages I've seen went like this:

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Creoles are usually very much transformed,
phonetically and morphologically.
Criado > creole is an example.

Verner's Law runs against creolization.
We should not be able to retrieve that feature,
if Germanic were creolized.
Details should be erased.

Arnaud
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Well, what is your position on substrates then? When are we permitted
to assume there was one?
Torsten
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That's an interesting question.
Arnaud

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