Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:40:55 -0000, "tgpedersen"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
>wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:15:21 -0500, "Brian M. Scott"
>> <BMScott@...> wrote:
>>
>> >At 6:49:37 PM on Thursday, March 6, 2008, Miguel Carrasquer
>> >Vidal wrote:
>> >
>> >[...]
>> >
>> >> A beautiful application of the law by Guus Kroonen can be
>> >> found here:
>> >
>> >> http://website.leidenuniv.nl/~kroonengj/montreal.pdf
>> >
>> >> http://website.leidenuniv.nl/~kroonengj/iwoba3.ppt
>> >
>> >Now *that* is elegant.
>> >
>>
>> Thank you Brian. That was my first reaction as well, when I
>> first heard it. This is so beautiful, it deserves to be
>> true.
>>
>
>Yes, doesn't it. Now what to do with gemination in verbs?

n-stems and j-stems.

>The whole
>language of geminates complex?
>http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46151
>http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46163
>http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46169
>http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48657

Apparently, the language of geminates == Germanic.

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