Re: CHAT: R: Italian Particles
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 20:47 |
|---|
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, 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.)
I think that's the idea. What I'd been taught is that there was some
kind of substrate influence on the Celtic that went from Europe to the
British Isles. But not Semitic; the influenceing language(s) would be
those of the pre-IE Europeans.
Padraic.
>--And.