Re: CHAT: Pre-Celtic substrate (was: CHAT: RE: R: Italian Particles)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 5, 2000, 16:58 |
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At 14:45 02.5.2000 +0200, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>But of course the Basque-Kartvelian connectionists want to compare the
>modern forms, not the reconstructed ones.
It is not so long ago that the possibility of reconstructing earlier stages
of Basque was rather implausible to most people. I guess the realization
that Old Aquitaine was close or identical to the ancestor of Basque changed
things drastically.
(Then there is of course internal reconstruction. I don't know how far one
can get with the help of early Latin loans, or how possible it is to sort
them out from later Ibero-Romance ones. By comparison Proto-Welsh could be
very succesfully reconstructed on the basis of its Latin loans: when
Britonic inscriptions from Roman times were eventually found they proved
the reconstruction almost entirely correct.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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