Re: [tied] Germanic geminates

On 2006-03-11 11:11, tgpedersen wrote:

> On principle Kluge's
> law might as well be an artifact arising from the composite mapping
> of (some of the) Nordwestblock internal laws and (some of) the laws
> valid for the borrowing by Germanic from Nordwestblock.

Anything might happen "on principle", but what "composite mapping" could
produce such a perfect imitation of a regular sound change, sensitive to
the location of pre-Germanic IE accent and interacting with Grimm's Law
the way Kluge's Law does? You might just as well call Verner's Law an
artifact -- Kluge's Law is in fact a kind of supplement to VL.

Piotr