• symbols instead of Unicode combining characters and Latin characters. Verner's law describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby...
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  • law predicted. These exceptions defied linguists for several decades, until Danish linguist Karl Verner explained them in Verner's law. Grimm's law consists...
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    Karl Adolph Verner (Danish: [ˈkʰɑˀl ˈvɛɐ̯ˀnɐ]; 7 March 1846 – 5 November 1896) was a Danish linguist. He is remembered today for Verner's law, which he...
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  • people with the name) Verner, Ontario, a town in Canada Verner's law, historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic language Verner Motor, a Czech aircraft...
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    voicing of some /s/ according to Verner's Law produced /z/, a new phoneme. Sometime after Grimm's and Verner's law, Proto-Germanic lost its inherited...
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    History of Latin (redirect from Exon's law)
    Hellenism remained current among peasants and traders, while Latin was used for laws and administrative writings. It continued to influence the Vulgar Latin that...
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  • ruki sound law. Other notable changes include: Grimm's law and Verner's law in Proto-Germanic an independent change similar to Grimm's law in Armenian...
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  • Grimm's law and Verner's law). Kluge's law did not operate behind stressed vowels, only in the same environment as Verner's law. Examples cited are after...
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    Proto-Greek, with later loss of h between vowels. Verner's law in Proto-Germanic. Grassmann's law (dissimilation of aspirates) independently in Proto-Greek...
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  • subfamilies and languages. Germanic spirant law Grimm's law Holtzmann's law Sievers' law Verner's law Kluge's law Germanic a-mutation Germanic umlaut (all...
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  • language, the terminal *z continuing Proto-Indo-European terminal *s via Verner's law.[citation needed] It is one of two runes which express a phoneme that...
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  • to the effects of Verner's law when they are viewed synchronically within the paradigm of a Germanic verb. According to Grimm's law, the Proto-Indo-European...
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  • in Biblical Hebrew Verner's law - an exception to Grimm's law Wackernagel's law - regarding position of clitics in syntax Whorf's law - regarding historical...
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  • similar patterns unexplained by Verner's law or by Proto-Germanic sound laws in general, became the subject of Thurneysen's law. Thurneysen sought to classify...
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    Proto-Germanic, united by subjection to the sound shifts of Grimm's law and Verner's law. These probably took place during the Pre-Roman Iron Age of Northern...
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  • without exception. Verner's law is a famous example of the Neogrammarian hypothesis, as it resolved an apparent exception to Grimm's law. The Neogrammarian...
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    High German consonant shift (category Sound laws)
    "[first] Germanic consonant shift" as defined by Grimm's law and its refinement, Verner's law. The High German consonant shift occurred not in a single...
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  • *gw while the latter became *b.) Proto-Germanic underwent Grimm's law and Verner's law, changing voiceless stops into voiceless or voiced fricatives, devoicing...
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  • 2002. His graduate work investigated the possible relationship between Verner's Law and certain stress patterns of Old Germanic poetry. At the University...
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    that sound laws have no exceptions, as illustrated by Verner's law, published in 1876, which resolved apparent exceptions to Grimm's law by exploring...
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  • Law, a paradigmatic n in an an-stem immediately succeeding a stop consonant may fuse to create a geminate stop, in the same context as Verner's Law,...
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  • masculines in Proto-Slavic. Late Proto-Germanic (after the operation of Verner's law) had fixed accent on the first syllable. Compare: PSl. *xlaiwu m 'pigsty'...
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    Phonetic change "f → h" in Spanish Ruki sound law Slavic palatalization Sound change in Japanese Umlaut Verner's law Sihler, p. 50 "The French phoneticians and...
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  • returns. Named after Dutch economist Petrus Johannes Verdoorn. Verner's law, stated by Karl Verner in 1875, describes a historical sound change in the Proto-Germanic...
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  • alternations known as grammatischer Wechsel developed, as a result of Verner's law. This involves an originally regular change in the consonant at the end...
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  • Verb–object–subject - Verb phrase - Verb–subject–object - Verbal noun - Verner's law - Vocative case - Vowel - Vowel harmony - Vowel stems - Weak suppletion...
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  • known as Grimm's Law); Late Proto-Germanic: (1) accent modification in two stages: (a) intensification in dominance followed by Verner's law; (b) fixation...
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    separate the two) derived by the processes described in Grimm's law and Verner's law and characteristic of Germanic languages. Gothic is unusual among...
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    *e vowel that caused the consonant shift in Sanskrit: Verner's Law, discovered by Karl Verner c. 1875, provides a similar case: the voicing of consonants...
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    Scandinavian languages. All Germanic languages are subject to the Grimm's law and Verner's law sound shifts, which originated in the Proto-Germanic language and...
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