• In historical linguistics, the German term grammatischer Wechsel ("grammatical alternation") refers to the effects of Verner's law when they are viewed...
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  • relevant for the discussion of the ablaut system. The development of grammatischer Wechsel as a result of Verner's law (the voicing of fricatives after an...
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    syllabic nasals or liquids, e.g. gaffel (fork) from PG *gabalō. Grammatischer Wechsel: Because of sound changes in Proto-Germanic (cf. Verner's law),...
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  • boog, gebogen ("to bend"). The verbs vriezen and verliezen show grammatischer Wechsel, with s/z changing to r in the past tense: vriezen, vroor, gevroren...
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    unchanged: One consequence of this is that there is no dental variety of grammatischer Wechsel in Middle Dutch. A peculiar development took place in stems which...
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  • lētans (to have). In Proto-Germanic, consonant alternations known as grammatischer Wechsel developed, as a result of Verner's law. This involves an originally...
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    nature, leading to the grammatical alternations of sounds known as grammatischer Wechsel. For a single word, the grammatical stem could display different...
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  • For more on these phonemes from a comparative perspective, see Grammatischer Wechsel. For the developments in German and Dutch see High German consonant...
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    A phonological archaism of West Germanic is the preservation of grammatischer Wechsel in most verbs, particularly in Old High German. This implies the...
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  • alternation of *s and *r in some inflectional paradigms, known as grammatischer Wechsel. For example, the Old English verb ceosan 'choose' had the past...
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