Re: Volcae and Volsci

--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:18:49 -0700 (PDT), Rick
> McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >--- 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?
>
> Because a Sprachbund has nothing to do with a
> creole.
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...
>

Of course it does. If you mix up the languages of a
Sprachbund until they converge, the result is a creole





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