Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

There's also non-standard English
iddnit /Iddn&t/ < isn't it, sometimes "innit" /Inn&t/
bidness /bIdn&s/ < business, sometimes "binness"
/bInn&s/
Then there's
granted > /graenn&t/ in some Great Lakes dialects and
elsewhere
(& = schwa)

--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...> wrote:

. . .

> The exact course followed in Proto-Germanic remains
> a matter
> of dispute. Kluge himself assumed assimilation Tn >
> dd,
> followed by standard Grimm devoicing, Lühr suggests
> gemination before /n/ (Tn > ddn) with subsequent
> loss of the
> nasal and Grimm devoicing (ddn > dd > tt). Given
> the Dutch
> and Catalan examples above, another route could be
> Tn >
> ddn/tn > tt.
>
> >especially an assimilation of that kind.
> >C-n > -CC- (left to right)
> >when PIE phonotaxis is (right to left).
>
>. . .

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