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Re: Conlang collaboration

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Saturday, February 15, 2003, 18:35
In a message dated 2/14/2003 4:25:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:

> En réponse à Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>: > > > > > Which then raises the question, which elements of French are Frankish > > influenced? > > > > Nearly none. The Frankish influence can only be seen in the lexicon, not in > the > morphology or syntax.
I think I've seen it claimed that the lack of pro-drop in French, unlike Italian & Spanish, is a result of Germanic influence. Is that likely? Doug

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