Re: PIE vestuary

From: Tavi
Message: 69436
Date: 2012-04-28

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:
>
> > Then "Italo-Celtic" is only an illusion caused by an Italic
> > substrate/adstrate in Celtic.
>
> This is obviously utterly irrelevant. 
>
No, it doesn't. Many specialists (e.g. Matasovic) reject the existence of "Italo-Celtic" as indicating a close genetical relationship, and thus they attribute their shared isoglosses to language contact. This is exactly my own position.