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Re: Creole vs. Pidgin

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, July 24, 1999, 1:02
Barry Garcia wrote:
> Interesting. My friend Liz is fluent in Chavacano. She says that the verbs > are all in the usted form (from what i see it seems to be that way with > your examples)
I wonder, is that really from the usted form, or is it from the infinitive form with final -r lost? Is the _habla_ in Kristian's examples pronounced ['abla] or [ab'la]? From what I've read about Romance-based creoles (admittedly, not much), it seems that most use the infinitive (which is most apparent in irregular verbs and -ir verbs), for example, the Media Lengua I mentioned in my last post has _i_, not _ba_ for "go" (inf = ir, usted form = va) -- "[H]e axed after eggys: And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." -- William Caxton http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/W.html http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor