Re: Pidgins and Creoles II
| From: | Theodore Kloba <ted.kloba@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 28, 1999, 2:44 |
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The simple phonetics weren't intended to be a pidgin feature, but rather an
existing feature of one of the parent languages.
Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> Phonetics needn't be very much simplified, as shown by the French
> pidgins, which are as nasal and vowely as French itself. Grammar is
> the important point, esp. tense, aspect, number and gender.
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Theodore M. Kloba
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