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Re: CHAT: R: Italian Particles

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Thursday, April 27, 2000, 17:30
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 ============================================================ SALLY CAVES scaves@frontiernet.net http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves (bragpage) http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html (T. homepage) http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/contents.html (all else) ===================================================================== Niffodyr tweluenrem lis teuim an. "The gods have retractible claws." from _The Gospel of Bastet_ ============================================================