Re: Volcae and Volsci

From: tgpedersen
Message: 56205
Date: 2008-03-29

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> At 11:25:43 AM on Saturday, March 29, 2008, Miguel
> Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Sounds shifts can and have spread across dialects, and
> > even across completely different languages (the cause
> > célèbre being the spread of uvular [R] across large parts
> > of Europe).
>
> Or preaspiration spreading from Scand. to Sc.Gael. and
> Saami.
>

No, what you want to do is present an example which can't have been
caused by a substrate.


Torsten