Re: [tied] Germanic geminates

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

>
> On 2006-03-10 13:22, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> >
> > None of the above disproves a solution where words with

geminates

> > are loans from the *IE* Nordwestblock (Kuhn actually proposed

two

> > layers of Nordwestblock: one pre-IE, one subsequent, short-lived

IE).

> >
>
> But it shows that at least _some_ words with geminates are due to

the

> normal development of inherited vocabulary: they can be captured

in

> terms of a regular sound law. I don't deny the possibility of

other

> words with geminates having some other origin (including

substratal

> loans). My only purpose was to defend the validity of Kluge's Law.
>

No, it shows that some words with geminates _might_ be due to the
"normal development of inherited vocabulary", ie. that Kluge's law
happened, and that it happened within Germanic. 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.


Torsten