Middle English creole hypothesis
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title:
Middle English creole hypothesis
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The Middle English creole hypothesis is a proposal that Middle English was a creole, which is usually defined as a language that develops during contact between two groups speaking different languages and that loses much of the grammatical elaboration of its source languages in the process. The vast differences between Old English and Middle English, and English's status as one of the least structurally elaborated of the Germanic languages, have led some historical linguists to argue that the la
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Linguistic hypothesis on the origin of the English language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_creole_hypothesis
date created:
2002-06-17T09:21:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T04:48:43Z
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