No Proto-Celtic?

[Stanley Friesen]

At 02:59 PM 6/1/01 -0400, Thomas McFadden wrote:

>> I maintain that the problem of word-order is irrelevant to the study of
>> PIE grammar, as much as declension in Chinese or gender in Finnish. But of
>> course you can write a monography on 'how to express gender in Finnish'.

>again i don't think it's irrelevant, but it is incredibly hard (maybe
>impossible) to reconstruct, in distinction to phonology and
>morphology.  and it probably is irrelevant to the study of PIE phonology
>and not terribly relevant to the study of PIE morphology.

I would not be that certain - PIE probably had sanddhi phenomena , which
require some knowledge of word order to completely reconstruct.  Certainly
I suspect that some of the apparent irregularities in word endings may be
due to such a thing.

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