Re: Grimm and Verner

--- In cybalist@..., "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> Torsten said:
> >1. To separate words Germanic has a laryngeal ("knacklaut")
>
> Surely only before a vowel, not before a fricative?
>
> Peter

True, but I was speaking purely formalistically. The problem was: how
to get rid of the "if initial" part of the formulation of Verner's
law. We can do that by inserting glottal stop *signs* between words,
let them unvoice the following fricative and then let them disappear
in non-voiced environments.

Torsten