Quoting R A Brown <ray@...>:
> >
> > */Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>/* wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Jörg Rhiemeier :
> >
> > > Yes, and I think it is likely, too. Italic and Celtic are indeed
> > > very similar, and I have seen a cladistic analysis based on various
> > > isoglosses among the IE branches that also grouped the two together.
> >
> >
> > FWIW, I saw one that grouped Celtic and Germanic, with Italic as
> > the sister of
> > this group. I could look for it tomorrow - it's available on the 'net.
> >
It can be read here:
http://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/psych/research/Evolution/Gray&Atkinson2003.pdf
Turns out I was misremembering - it shows Germanic+Italic as the sister of
Celtic. Next group out is Balto-Slavic.
An odd feature is that it had Sinhalese+Romani as the outgroup of all other
Indic languages bar Kashmiri. It's very tempting to suspect a linguistic
equivalent of lateral gene transfer (ie. borrowing) at work here.
Andreas