[tied] Re: Woof

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:

>
> >Of course Sardinian ..._is_ archaic, and little wonder: the
> > islands were taken over by Rome in the 230s BC, long before

Iberia,

> > Gaul, etc.
>

Rome was taken over by the Romans in 759 BC. Italian is less
conservative than Sardinian.

> I would have thought it was not the early time of colonisation that
> mattered, but the relative remoteness from the centres of

linguistic

> innovation in the early middle ages.
>

Those centers seem to have been all over the place, k > c^ and
further before front vowel and loss of -t in 3rd sg (Greek influence)
happened everywhere except Sardinia. Odd.


Torsten