From: tgpedersen
Message: 23648
Date: 2003-06-20
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:23:04 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>wrote:
> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>
> >> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:08:50 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>Castilian,
> >> 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
> >> Aragonese or Catalan (except -n > -0).Oh.
> >>
> >
> >How about this hypothetical scenario, then:
> >
> >1) Reconquista (halfways?) in linguistic north-south stripes
> >
> >2) The whole north coast goes -o > -u, -Vn > V~ etc (Basque
> >substrate? French influence?)
> >
> >3) Conservative Castillan goes north (after Madrid becomes capital)
> >and breaks the north coast into two halves
>
> No.
>