*p>f Revisited - When was German invented?

Sheila Watts sw271 at cus.cam.ac.uk
Thu Mar 11 09:40:11 UTC 1999


>Once again, I'm just following through on the commentary made in Bernard
>Comrie's book that attributes the "First Sound Shift" in German to the
>conversion of IE sounds into "the nearest equivalents" of a prior non-IE
>language.

I'm a great fan of Bernard Comrie's, and he's the author of quite a few
books. Could you tell us which one this is, please?
Thanks,
Sheila Watts

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