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.)
ObConlang: Since Ireland is the nearest landmass to Livagia, speculation
about the linguistic prehistory of the British Isles is pertinent to
the prehistory of Livagia.
--And.