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 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.
Source Wikipedia: Karl Verner
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Verner's law resolved the exceptions Grimm's law left unexplained.
Source Wikipedia: Grimm's Law
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1. Wikipedia: Karl Verner
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He is remembered best for Verner's law, which he published in 1876.
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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.
View the Source Wikipedia: Grimm's Law
Wikimedia FoundationInfluenced By: Jacob Grimm, Exceptions and refinements sectionQuote, Influenced By: Jacob Grimm, Exceptions and refinements section
These exceptions defied linguists for several decades, until Danish linguist Karl Verner explained them in Verner's law.
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