Re: Stacking up on standard works

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 69253
Date: 2012-04-05

One can only try. Villar, as I remember, is the one of the greats in Hispano-Celtic and also a champion of Basque being from Aquitania, rather than the Basque country. Trask seemed to agree with him, pointing out that most Basque Country hydronyms are Celtic. So Villar is far from a zero in Basque studies.

From: Trond Engen <trond@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Stacking up on standard works

 
Tavi:

> Rick McCallister:
>
>> Brian M. Scott:
>>
>>> No, I shouldn't: I'm not familiar with his work, so I don't
>>> know whether it does the sort of thing that I was
>>> describing.
>>
>> You SHOULD read Villar. Villar is mainstream and is one of the top
>> five or so people in paleo-Iberian languages, along with with
>> Untermann, Prosper, Adrados et al. Trask
>> respected Villar
>
> Unfortunately, Villar is a zero on Basque and Iberian, although this
> is comparatively minor with regard to this discoverings.
>
>> Don't assume that Tavi is always wrong.

And just as he was offered a tiny foothold on common ground, Tavi was
there with his shovel. (This exchange may not be informative, but it's
funny in perverse sort of way.)

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Trond Engen