Re: [tied] Re: Grimm's Law is about to expire (Collinge 1985, p. 26

On 2007-03-16 03:01, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> Did Grimm actually formulate it for Armenian? He was long dead by the
> time Hittite was deciphered. Also, it is not totally certain that PIE
> *d > Hittite [t] - it seems possible that the fortis/lenis contrast of
> Hittite was actually /t/ v. /d/!

It was in 1875, twelve years after Jacob Grimm's death, that Heinrich
Hübschmann clarified the question of the Armenian shift and the position
of Armenian in the IE family, demonstrating, in particular, that
Armenian wasn't an Iranian language.

Piotr