Re: [tied] Re: substratum

25-06-03 12:33, m_iacomi wrote:

> I use the regular definition for substrate: "An indigenous language
> that contributes features to the language of an invading people who
> impose their language on the indigenous population." Equating over
> the millennia two languages (genenetically related) sounds somehow
> misleading, even if one precises it's just a formal convention
> enabling us to refer to some known modern language. I still prefer
> a formula like: "Romanian substrate is a language Y closely related
> or identical to Y' (Albanian stratum)". Specially when dealing with
> a language "raising more questions to comparatists than solving"
> like Albanian (Martinet).

I think we can agree, at least, that the Balkan Latin stratum in
Albanian is Romanian-like, whilst the non-Romance substrate in Romanian
is Albanian-like. This criss-cross relation suggests close contacts
between Proto-Romanian and Proto-Albanian.

Piotr