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Strong Proponents of Polygenesis:

R. Hall explains two mechanisms:

  1. Spontaneous Generation of Pidgin (eventually becomes CReole?)
  2. Diffusion from old to new situation.




Harold Schiffman
Tue Mar 25 08:54:40 EST 1997