Re: Lingua Frakas...TMA (tenses,mood & aspects)

Jonathan Chang wrote:
>     So far, most of the pidgins & creoles I have been looking at have a
> division of past & non-past, too. Maybe this is part & parcel of the tendency
> of pidgins/creoles to reduce & simplify...
Pidgins/creoles sometimes have *more* complexity in certain aspects than
the lexifier, especially after being used for a while, the best example
is Bislama [and other pidgins/creoles in the region] which has pronouns
like _yumitrifala_ (1st person inclusive trial), because, of course, the
local languages make those same distinctions.  So, if the local
languages used a complex tense/aspect system, it might make sense that
Synthrax would do that with the lexifier's words.

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