From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 57028
Date: 2008-04-08
>Because a Sprachbund has nothing to do with a creole.
>--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:38:40 -0000, "tgpedersen"
>> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>>
>> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
>> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>> >> elaborate on why you think the Central Gmc
>> language are all
>> >> "partially creolized".
>> >Reduction or elimination of person and number
>> paradigm for verbs,
>> >reduction or elimination of case and number
>> paradigm for nouns,
>> >reduction or elimination of case, number and
>> definiteness paradigm for
>> >adjectives.
>>
>> So Modern Greek is also "partially creolized"?
>>
>>
>If you consider it as part of the Balkan Sprachbund,
>why not?