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  1. Newsgroups: sci.lang
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!Csli!poser
  3. From: poser@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser)
  4. Subject: Re: Origin of English?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan9.015629.12623@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
  6. Organization: Stanford University CSLI
  7. References: <memo.843625@cix.compulink.co.uk> <C0Hr0w.159@NeoSoft.com> <1ihrnhINN58e@pith.uoregon.edu>
  8. Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:56:29 GMT
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  11. On the question of whether English is a creole or mixed language, I
  12. strongly recommend reading Case Study 9.8 of Sarah Grey Thomason and
  13. Terrence Kaufman's _Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics_,
  14. which argues at length (about 80 pp.) against the claim that
  15. English is a creole or mixed language.
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  17. Bill
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