Re: English as a creole.

Douglas G. Kilday wrote:

All the Romance languages I have studied retain the subjunctive/
indicative distinction inherited from Latin. What has been simplified
in going from L to R is primarily the declensional system. The
typical verb in Spanish, French, or Italian is at least as complex as
its Latin counterpart.

They did lose the synthetic passive. Some lost the synthetic perfect and future. Not that it matters, though.

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