THE PHONOLOGICAL MOTIVATION FOR VERNER’S LAW AND GRIMM’S LAW

2012 ◽  
pp. 342-367 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Verner's Law

The Phonetic Organization of Early Germanic

1990 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatoly Liberman
Keyword(s):  
Word Stress ◽  
Verner's Law

ABSTRACTThe article deals with segmentation and stress in early Germanic. An attempt is made to isolate minimal prosodic units of Germanic, not traditional syllables. These units are then analyzed in terms of morae and phonemes. Alternations by the Akzentumsprung and Verner's law are interpreted as indicating that early Germanic had sentence rather than word stress.

The development of Proto-Germanic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Ringe
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Initial Section ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Sound Changes ◽  
Verner's Law

This chapter discusses the reconstructable linguistic changes that occurred in the development from Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic. The first half of the chapter discusses regular sound changes, especially prominent changes including the elimination of laryngeals, Grimm’s Law, Verner’s Law, the remodelling of Sievers’ Law, the loss of intervocalic *j, and several changes of vowels. The second half discusses morphological changes. A long initial section deals with the wholesale morphological restructuring of the verb system, concentrating on preterite-present verbs, strong and weak past tense stems, and participles. Subsequent sections discuss less sweeping changes in the inflection of verbs and nominals.

Analogy, simplification, and the history of French

1974 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Douglas C. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Sound Change ◽  
Historical Phonology ◽  
Conditioning Factors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Verner's Law ◽  
Phonological Change

In traditional studies of historical phonology, there is frequently a division between sound change and analogy. Sound change is said to proceed gradually and inexorably under strictly phonetic conditions; “La règle générale est que les transformations phonétiques s’opèrent avec une constance absolue c’est-à-dire que les mêmes phonèmes placés dans les mêmes conditions, se développent d’une manière identique.” (Schwan-Behrens 1963: 12). Occasionally, when the conditions are not apparent, there may be some concern until further research uncovers the conditioning factors. Such was the case with Verner’s law, for example. Yet in any interesting situation, there remains a body of forms for which the proper phonetic environment cannot be found. The items just do not follow the normal phonetic “laws.” In these cases, analogy is often called on to explain the discrepancy, and also to account for the reintroduction of regularity into a system “ravaged” by the forces of phonological change; “L’analogie joue un rôle considérable en roman (et en français) qui s’est reconstitué, comme on l’a dit, sur les ruines du latin où les ravages d’une évolution phonétique brutale avaient entièrement boulversé le système des oppositions morphologiques et de leurs valeurs” (Guiraud 1965: 63).

English Is an Indo-European Language

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Pulju
Keyword(s):  
European Language ◽  
Sound Changes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Verner's Law ◽  
European Family

This chapter suggests ways that Indo-European can be made relevant throughout an entire course on the history of English. Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law, for example, are not just useful for demonstrating that English is member of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family. Rather, in combination with other, later sound changes, they have repercussions in present-day English. For example, they tell us that day and diurnal are not cognate, but that raw and crude are, as are seethe and sodden. An understanding of Proto-Indo-European linguistic phenomena, such as sound changes, ablaut, and the PIE active-stative verb system can be used to explain the structure of Old, Middle, and Modern English as well as aspects of English as it is spoken today.

Germanic accent, syllabication and the origin of Scandinavian accentuation

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Richard d'Alquen
Keyword(s):  
Verner's Law ◽  
Heavy Syllable

ABSTRACTA proposal to abandon the assumption of word accent (either pitch or stress) for Germanic is seen overall as unprofitable. The dilemma of syllable division is resolved against CVC.V and for CV.CV on general considerations following Murray and Vennemann and specific considerations allowing a better analysis of the conditions surrounding Verner's Law. It is proposed that a new Germanic heavy syllable accent, when double-peaked on words with heavy suffixes gave rise to Scandinavian accent 2, and when single-peaked on heavy roots with light suffixes, gave rise to accent 1 and to Danish stød.

Verner's Law

2010 ◽  
Vol 58-59 ◽  
pp. 381-425
Author(s):  
Anatoly Liberman
Keyword(s):  
Verner's Law
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