James Chandler | Re: [europidgin] Re: Eurocreole?
- Autor: James Chandler (“idojc”)
- Tema: Re: [europidgin] Re: Eurocreole?
- Data: 2002-09-13 07:47
- Mesaje: 31 (a supra, presedente, seguente)
Bjorn: >I think that it would make sense to create both a "pidgin", a "creole", and >a "full" language. The "pidgin" as a first step with very simple grammar >and a limited vocabulary, something a little like Basic English, just with >Romance words. Then the creole as the next step ond finally the full >language. If we want to simulate a creolization process, we can start from any pidginized stage of the language, from jargon through stable to expanded pidgin. According to Bickerton, a 'pure' (prototypical) creole only arises from creolization of the jargon stage, before any grammaticalization or expansion has occured. On this view, the first step would be to jargonize the lexifier (in this case LFN), before proceeding to simulate the nativization of this jargon. >Well, this is really a matter of taste. Personally I would prefere Lingua >Franca Nova with some more words from Romanova and Interlingua... I would argue that it is not so much a matter of taste, as of following consistently the principle of maximum internationality, formulated by Jespersen as selection of the forms known to the greatest number of people through their native language. The languages which follow most faithfully this principle are the trinity of Ido-Nov-Occ. Kordiale, James Chandler idojc@... http://www.geocities.com/idojc - IALs index http://www.geocities.com/idojc/yindex.html - Ido index "The postulation of quarks gives a structure to the proliferation of subatomic particles, but physicists demand a different sort of evidence in order to establish the physical reality of quarks." - Gilbert Harman, Two quibbles about analyticity and psychological reality, Behavorial and Brain Sciences 3 _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx