• the voiced fricatives *β, *ð, *z, *ɣ, *ɣʷ. The law was formulated by Karl Verner, and first published in 1877. A seminal insight into how the Germanic...
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  • A re-evaluation of their place in the development of linguistic science. The Hague, Mouton. Karl Brugmann und Bertold Delbrück: Grundriß der vergleichenden...
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    contributions were made by the Danish scholars Rasmus Rask (1787–1832) and Karl Verner (1846–1896), and the German scholar Jacob Grimm (1785–1863). The first...
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    Major contributions were made by the Danish scholars Rasmus Rask and Karl Verner and the German scholar Jacob Grimm. The first linguist to offer reconstructed...
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    three are Sir William Jones's address to the Asiatic Society in 1786, Karl Verner's Eine Ausnahme der ersten Lautverschiebung in 1875 and Ferdinand de Saussure's...
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    Indo-European languages are descended from a single prehistoric language, linguistically reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European, spoken sometime during the Neolithic...
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    pioneers of modern linguistics; Rasmus Rask, Niels Ludvig Westergaard and Karl Verner. Thomsen was President of the Danish Academy from 1909 until his death...
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  • Grammatischer Wechsel (category Linguistic morphology)
    Proto-Germanic *f, *θ (dental fricative), *x and *xʷ (velar fricative). Karl Verner identified the principle that they instead become the voiced consonants...
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    (1843 – 1901) Ernst Windisch (1844 – 1918) K. A. Verner (1846 – 1896) Hermann Osthoff (1846 – 1909) Karl Brugmann (1849 – 1919) Hermann Möller (1850 – 1923)...
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    consolidation of the nation states, as it provided validation of their ethno-linguistic groups. Most national poets are historic figures, though a few contemporary...
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