Not at all, it's interesting to discuss these things. I have had a look through what you copied from Wikipedia, and it all seems to pertain to English. I am absolutely aware of the Middle English as Creole hypothesis, but you mentioned that you believe that every language has gone through creolisation and this was what I meant when I said I would love to see research on the matter as it's not a theory that I am aware of.

You asked also what my qualifications are. I am a doctor of linguistics, my PhD was on the origins and development of Cameroon Pidgin English grammar, specifically testing the interlanguage hypothesis on a corpus of CamTok.

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Sarah FitzGerald
Sarah FitzGerald

Written by Sarah FitzGerald

I write funny things about parenting and well researched things about linguistics

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