Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

> Out of curiosity, are the major changes that occurred in Vulgar Latin,
> leading up to the Romance languages, held to be primarily due to the
> influence of foreign presence, e.g. Visigoths, Moors (I don't know who
> it would be in France)?

By me, it is. I think (but this is just a hypothesis) that Vulgar
Latin (pre break-down) was actually two: Christian Latin, which had a
Greek substrate, and army Latin, which had Gallic, Germanic and
whatever was in between substrates.


Torsten