From: Tavi
Message: 69828
Date: 2012-06-18
>That's right. As far as we know, Celts had *stratified* societies, leaded by warfare aristocracies who had conquered non-Celtic people. This means their ethnogenesis involved language replacement, thus invalidating your continuity proposition.
> 7) a different - because chronological rather than genealogical -
> controversy about the relative precedence of Celtic and hypothetical
> other (IE) languages in Cisalpine Gaul, S and C France and E Spain,
> whereas I maintain local Celtic has everywhere evolved in situ from
> PIE, while DGK seems to put Celtic always as latest phase in whatever
> area (therefore leaving no place even for restricted Proto-Celtic
> Urheimat)
>