Re: Germanic and Celtic (was Re: Verb-second ... verb-penultimate languages?)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 24, 2006, 20:11 |
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:36:45 -0400, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
wrote:
> 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.
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.
Quasirelatedly, what's current thought on the grouping of Balto-Slavic and
Indo-Iranian together as sister groups? I have the term "Indo-Slavic" in
some of my Thagojian notes, but I'm not entirely sure right now whether
it's a figment of my imagination...
Paul
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