Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

>
> >> >> > Germanic is irregular here: it should be -fT-, not
> >> >> -ft-.
> >> >> > Why?
>
> >> >> What's irregular about it?
>
> >> > He noted that the -t doesn't spirantize. [...]
>
> >> I know. So what? That's not in itself an irregularity.
>
> > It's an exception.
>
> Depends on how you state the rule, obviously. Looks pretty
> regular to me.
>

How would you state the rule so that the lack of spirantization before
stops is not an exception to Grimm?


Torsten