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Karl Verner
VAIR-ner (Danish: [ˈvɛɐnɐ])
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Danish linguist remembered for Verner's Law, published in 1876, which explained a class of exceptions to Grimm's Law in the Germanic consonant shift by showing that the position of the original Proto-Indo-European accent determined the outcome. He considered himself only an amateur in Germanic philology, despite the achievement.
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RoleLinguist; formulator of Verner's Law 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Verner's Law explains exceptions to Grimm's Law in the Germanic consonant shift ancestral to German and the other Germanic languages.
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