Re[2]: [tied] Grimm 's Law fact or myth: Gessman (1990)

At 5:44:52 PM on Thursday, May 8, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> <proto-language@...> wrote:

[...]

>> Secondly, I do not see Mr. Kelkar pushing his
>> interpretation of history though that may be his ultimate
>> motivation.

> I can't figure out what his motivation is for attacking
> Grimm's law. Why is that so important to him?

I don't think that he cares one way or the other about
Grimm's Law: for obvious reasons he likes anything that
suggests that some traditional tenet of IE linguistics is
wrong. And if he realized that Gessman's 'Proto-Aryan' is
PIE, he may well have seen in 'The Proto-Aryan basis on
which [the 'Germanic Consonant Shift'] had been predicated
has vanished' a confirmation of his position that PIE is a
figment of the imaginations of Eurocentric linguists.

Brian