Re: CHAT: R: Italian Particles

And Rosta wrote:
>
> Ray:
> > All the evidence points to (insular) Celtic as being _originally_ VSO.  Why
> > this should be so is AFAIK unknown and one of those features that
> > "Celto-Semitists" like to point as evidence of Semitic influence  :)
>
> Why the smiley? Is the notion of there being a Semitic substrate beneath
> insular Celtic so daft? (What I find less plausible is that there'd be
> a Semitic substrate in the British Isles but not in Iberia or Atlantic
> France.)
Me too.

But I'm with And on this one.  A year or so ago I tried, imperfectly, to
summarize some of the points made by Orin Gensler in his recent thesis
on the
subject, which is an enormous collation and commentary on all the
arguments
concerning the Celto-Hamitic connection, and it was scoffed at on the
basis of
my summary.  Go read the books on it, that's my advice.  It's one of the
world's more interesting linguistic "problems," which doesn't deserve
complacent dismissal before everything that has been written on it has
been read.

Sally
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