Re: [tied] Germanic geminates

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

>
> 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.
>

A mapping defined as a composition of two well-defined mappings is
itself a well-defined mapping. In the extreme case one is the
identity mapping, in which any requirement that the composite
mapping should fulfill conditions that hold for one of the
components can be trivially solved.
Actually Kuhn provides a few examples in which he sees the action of
Verner's law in progress during the infiltration of Nordwestblock -
the name of the tributary Werra to the river Weser, the area around
river Ems referred to as Emergauwe (vel sim.).


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