From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53040
Date: 2008-02-14
> At 12:16:55 AM on Thursday, February 14, 2008, Rick____________________________________________________________________________________
> McCallister wrote:
>
> > --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> >> At 6:41:07 PM on Wednesday, February 13, 2008,
> Richard
> >> Wordingham wrote:
>
> >>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick
> McCallister
> >>> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> >>>> If so, was there a stage when Gmc had
> laryngeals?
>
> >>> Will a single one do? German has merged initial
> >>> laryngeals to a glottal stop, [...]
>
> >> What is the evidence that the German glottal stop
> before
> >> word-initial vowels has anything at all to do
> with IE
> >> laryngeals? It seems on the face of it both
> unlikely and
> >> virtually impossible to demonstrate even if true.
>
> > I'd like to see both sides of this argument Why do
> you say
> > unlikely and impossible to demonstrate?
>
> Because the German glottal stop is predictable.
>
> Brian
>
>
>