Re: [tied] Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

On 2007-01-28 11:26, tgpedersen wrote:

> Yes. It means I'm making the clain that those changes that Grimm's law
> is meant to explain were already present as variations (allophones) in
> pronunciaton in PIE sounds (phonemes), and that those variations were
> generalized in the Germanic languages and the others were gneralized
> in other IE languages, eg Sanskrit.

Then why are early loans from Celtic (such as *walxa- < *wolko- and
*ri:k- < *ri:g- ~ *re:g-) affected? And how can your "allophone
rearrangement" hypothesis be tested? Does it make any predictions
different from the standard theory of GL as a Germanic sound change?

Piotr