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Year:
1875
Short description:
Verner's Law postulated
Medium description:
Karl Verner explains some of the exceptions to Grimm's Law. His explanation noted the importance of stress and the surrounding phonemes.
Tags:
history of linguistics
Fennell, B. A. (2005). A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. [p.37]
Baugh, A. C. & Cable, T. (1993). A History of the English Language 4th edition. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [p.20]
Lyons, John (1968). Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [p.29]