Not "catching the wind " , or, what ARE we discussing? Was (Query

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> The Grimm/Verner/Kluge complex of changes is uniquely Germanic and can
> be conveniently regarded as the defining autapomorphy of the group. Any
> language ancestral or related to the historically known Gmc. languages
> but not showing the operation of those changes would then be
> non-Germanic by definition (it might be "pre-Gmc." or "para-Gmc.").

But at the level of these discussions, might not one actually see the
spread of Grimm and Verner? Celto-Germanic Kluge's law might be much
older.

Richard.