From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56878
Date: 2008-04-06
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> Creoles are usually very much transformed,
> phonetically and morphologically.
> Criado > creole is an example.
Creole is a creole language? You know many things.
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Call me "maître".
Arnaud
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> 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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Check up Afrikaans. It kept many irregular features and even
introduced some new ones. I think a partly literate elite established
a standard within various Germanic languages early on, which helped
preserve some irregular features, playing the same role as the Dutch
reformed church in the development of Afrikaans (preserving Dutch as a
liturgical language).
Torsten
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What is the relevance of this as regards Germanic being originally Creolized
?
Arnaud
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