Re: Creole vs. Pidgin
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 24, 1999, 19:16 |
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FFlores wrote:
> But
> maybe _ba_ is an exception, since _ir_ is *so* irregular. Or maybe the
> Media Lengua is the exception. :-)
Well, Media Lengua does use Quechua inflections, so the logical stem to
put inflections on would be the infinitive.
> FWIW, Jopara, the Guarani/Spanish pidgin spoken in Paraguay, also takes the
> infinitives minus -r as verb stems, and like Media Lengua, it tacks
> Guarani affixes onto them.
Cool, I was wondering if there were other examples of that phenomenon.
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