Germanic (wasRe: Stress Borrowing?)
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 8:15 |
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en mem0 dii 2003:03:17 04.29.19 gozen, cowan graeffii:
>In my scarcely-unlimited set of examples, I can think of none that
>look like that, unless indeed Germanic "caught" its heavy initial stress
>from some unknown substratum language. Germanic does in some ways look
>like a creole of Indo-European....
Hey, IMO/AFAIK that sounds like an Essentialist definition: Germanic is
essentially a direct descendent of an Indo-European creole ;)
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