Re: Divergence vs. convergence (was: Witzel and Sautsutras)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
wrote:

>
> > The so-called "Mediterranean substrate" (which IMHO is mostly
> > Vasco-Caucasian) has been studied by scholars such as Johannes
> > Hubschmidt, and loanwords from this source can be found in Basque,
> > although Trask and others consider them to be "Romance" loanwords,
> > because they don't conform to native Basque phonetics.
>
> Can you point me to useful references? That matter sounds

interesting.

>

Hubschmid (without -t?) published a series of little monographs, such as
"Mediterranische Substrate" and "Sardische Studien".

BTW, I've uploaded a PDF copy of Mallory & Adams here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/files/Mallory%20%26%20Adams.pdf