linguistic maxims [was Re: pre-IE k > H]

[Richard M. Alderson III]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Carol Justus (cjustus at mail.utexas.edu) wrote in passing:

> Some years ago, Yakov Malkiel, exhaustively studying the details of the
> Romance languages, took a position often reduced to the slogan "every word
> has its own history" because he found so many explanations for exceptions to
> regular sound correspondences.

Doesn't this particular maxim date back to Hermann Paul and the beginnings of
dialect geography--on which Schmidt based his proposal of the _Wellentheorie_?

								Rich Alderson