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From: "Lenderink, dr. E." <lenderin@natlab.research.philips.com>
Subject: Re: Creolisation of English [was: Re: Language relatedness a red
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Daniel von Brighoff wrote:
> 
> >>So what are some
> >>"irregularities" that post-creole English has jettisoned that its non-
> >>creolised relatives, like Dutch, have retained?
> >
> >Now that's a tougher question. Gender of the definite article, for
> >instance. Retained by French, Dutch,
> 
> Retained in Standard Dutch, not in all dialects.

This remark is completely wrong. ALL Dutch dialects retain the 
distinction DE for masculine/feminine gender and HET for neuter.
Actually, there are a few Ducth dialects that retain even more gender
distinctions: DEN for masculine and DE for feminine. (Some of the
dialects spoken close to the Dutch-German border.)

Egbert.

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