Re: glossogenesis (was: Indo-European question)

Tommie L Powell scripsit:

> You are telling me that the children aren't exposed to their
> own parents' native grammars. If that were true, it would
> mean that a child's own parents avoid talking to their own
> children in their own native language -- and avoid talking to
> each other in front of their own children in their own native
> language -- and that those parents instead choose to speak
> to each other and to their own children in only the crude
> pidgin that's designed to permit imperfect communication
> with foreigners.  As a parent, I cannot imagine doing that.
In creole-forming situations, the parents typically have no
common language except the pidgin.  Creoles typically
happen in slavery environments, where slavemasters are
careful not to allow people with a common language to
conspire together.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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