Re: Germanic and Celtic (was Re: Verb-second ... verb-penultimate languages?)

staving Paul Bennett:
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>On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:36:45 -0400, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
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>>I posted a "cladogram" of IE languages that had Celtic and Germanic as
>>sisters
>>(and Italic as the next group out) some time ago here, but as was
>>pointed out
>>in the attendant discussion thread, the assuptions on which the tree was
>>based
>>were not beyond question.
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>I think it's beyond reasonable doubt that Celtic, Italic and Germanic are
>more closely related to eachother than any are to the other branches of
>IE, but I tend to agree with the majority opinion that groups Celtic and
>Italic more closely, and then adds Germanic as sister to Italo-Celtic.
Well, that really puts the cat amongst the pigeons for word order
considerations, since the best known Italic language is SOV!

Pete

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