Linguistics & Language · Historical & Comparative Linguistics
A topic within Historical & Comparative Linguistics, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
2 works
Karl Verner
Shows that the apparent exceptions to Grimm's Law depended on where stress fell in the original Proto-Indo-European word, resolving them as a further regular sound change rather than a failure of the law's regularity.
Hermann Paul
Argues that sound change proceeds mechanically and without exception within a dialect at a given time, so apparent exceptions must be explained by analogy or borrowing rather than by weakening the regularity of the sound law itself.
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