Question

Why is it disputed that English's contact with Scandinavian languages resulted in creolisation?

Accepted Answer

The languages were so similar in the first place, that they were mutually intelligible.The Norse were settlers in Britain, rather than interim influences, a factor key for creolisation.Any simplification of language was almost certainly down to the process already underway with the move from IE to Germanic languages.

Front	Why is it disputed that English's contact with Scandinavian languages resulted in creolisation?
Back	The languages were so similar in the first place, that they were mutually intelligible. The Norse were settlers in Britain, rather than interim influences, a factor key for creolisation. Any simplification of language was almost certainly down to the process already underway with the move from IE to Germanic languages.

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