Re: [tied] Re: Saint

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:08:50 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>It seems in your argument you are using 'unrelated' for 'non-
>contiguous'. Have you ruled out a conservative spread from Castillian
>in Cantabria?

Castilian *comes* from Cantabria (roughly the area Santander-Burgos).

>Or tried to see the two areas as relic islands?

There is, as far as I know, no trace of -n- deletion in Castilian,
Aragonese or Catalan (except -n > -0).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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