No Proto-Celtic?

[Rick Mc Callister]

	Besides Insular Celtic's VSO structure. Could you elaborate?

>        There is good evidence of something like Semitic influence,
>sub-stratal or not, in Insular Celtic, and I suspected when I first read Dr.
>Trask's initial posting that something like this woud lie behind the views
>of the "No-Proto-Celtic" crowd.  The typological lurch of Insular Celtic
>toward Semitic, illusory (in terms of actual Semites) or not, does indeed
>make it difficult to construct a unified proto-language.  Difficult, but not
>impossible.  Such questions as how and when Insular Celtic wound up
>verb-initial and so on just have to be answered at some point.  They do no
>make proto-Celtic unviable, or suggest any such scenario as just given
>above.

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701