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Mikhailova, Tatyana, “Once again on the pre-Celtic substratum in the British Islands [Response to Ranko Matasović]”, Journal of Language Relationship 8 (2012): 160–164.

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“Once again on the pre-Celtic substratum in the British Islands”
[additional details: Response to Ranko Matasović]
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160–164
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Matasović, Ranko, “The substratum in Insular Celtic”, Journal of Language Relationship 8 (2012): 153–159, 165–168 (response to Tatyana Mikhailova). URL: <http://www.jolr.ru/article.php?id=100>. 
abstract:
The discussion focuses on the problem of pre-Celtic substratum languages in the British Islands. The article by R. Matasović begins by dealing with the syntactic features of Insular Celtic languages (Brittonic and Goidelic): the author analyses numerous innovations in Insular Celtic and finds certain parallels in languages of the Afro-Asiatic macrofamily. The second part of his paper contains the analysis of that particular part of the Celtic lexicon which cannot be attributed to the PIE layer. A number of words for which only a substratum origin can be assumed is attested only in Brittonic and Goidelic. The author proposes to reconstruct Proto-Insular Celtic forms for this section of the vocabulary. This idea encounters objections from T. Mikhailova, who prefers to qualify common non-Celtic lexicon of Goidelic and Brittonic as parallel loanwords from the same substratum language. The genetic value of this language, however, remains enigmatic for both authors.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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