Re: Volcae and Volsci

At 2:26:46 PM on Saturday, March 29, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 11:25:43 AM on Saturday, March 29, 2008, Miguel
>> Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

>> [...]

>>> Sounds shifts can and have spread across dialects, and
>>> even across completely different languages (the cause
>>> célèbre being the spread of uvular [R] across large
>>> parts of Europe).

>> Or preaspiration spreading from Scand. to Sc.Gael. and
>> Saami.

> No, what you want to do is present an example which can't
> have been caused by a substrate.

In your world I doubt that there is such a thing. Even in
my world it would, I think, be very difficult to find such a
thing. That's why your extreme reliance on substrates, like
your reliance on invisible underclasses, is methodologically
unsound.

Brian