SV: No Proto-Celtic?

[Lars Martin Fosse]

David L. White [SMTP:dlwhite at texas.net] skrev 6. mai 2001 16:21:
>         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.

As far as I know, Old Norse is also verb-initial. Should we assume Semitic
influence there too?

Would it be possible to get a list of features that point in the direction of
Semitic?

Best regards,

Lars Martin Fosse

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