Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> I see your point. At one time, there were transition
> dialects between IE families but they got squeezed out
> or fragmented as some IE groups moved out and new
> families moved in
>
Not really. I said that once the Germanic family was bigger, but some
members died since Tacitus' time, so now we see a much more narrow
picture of what 'Germanic' was then.


Torsten