Mark P. Line scripsit:
> Without historical records of intermediate varieties, how do we
> distinguish between a process involving only koineization and one that
> involves pidginization, creolization and decreolization to arrive at the
> same result?
See www.csuchico.edu/~gt18/Papers/Cham_WECOL.pdf for an interesting
view of Cham's simplicity and regularity as a result of repeated cycles
of L2 learning and language shift.
--
It was dreary and wearisome. Cold clammy winter still held way in this
forsaken country. The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark
greasy surfaces of the sullen waters. Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed
up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers.
--"The Passage of the Marshes" http://www.ccil.org/~cowan