From: G&P
Message: 62302
Date: 2008-12-28
Torsten:
>What I find difficult to
believe is that PGmc should have gotten rid
>of ablaut (in nouns
only) without getting rid of its effect (Verner)
>at the same time.
Doesn’t modern English show that the effect of an alternation can survive long after the alternation has gone? We see this in words like house/ houses, and (with different effect) foot/feet, mouse/mice and so on.
Peter