... not to forget "Grimms Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache", a
dictionary of
the German Language, which they started in 1838 and which was completed
in 1961,
after 123 years.
see: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_W%C3%B6rterbuch
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 23.11.2012 00:52, schrieb John Gilmore:
Mr.Suhr,
I don't know quite what to do with you You are of course free to
"correct" me as much as you like, but you do not appear to be very
well informed about the things we are discussing.
The Brothers Grimm did certainly collect (not really write) fairy
tales/fables. (If you read German well there are many modern critical
editions of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen available to consult.)
More to the point here, however, they were also the most celebrated
[not just German] philologists and in particular phonologists of their
period. Grimm's law characterizes the ways in which 1) PIE stop
consonants evolved into Proto-Germanic stops and other consonants, 2)
voiceless stops become voiceless fricatives, 3) voiced stops become
voiceless, 4) voiced aspirated stops become . . .
Moreover, Grimm's Law is not just descriptive; it also figures
significantly in modern generative grammars
I had occasion to quote Pliny the younger here in another context
recently, and I will take this opportunity to cite Pliny the Elder's
gloss on Apelles' advice to the cobbler:
'Sutor, ne ultra crepidam", «Schuster, bleib bei deinem leisten».
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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