Linguistically speaking, the difference between Dutch and German is, of course, quite literally a
Lautverschiebung, or a "vowel shift." A Verschiebung, or a "displacement," is thus a rather literal image to describe this situation.
Verner, Karl 1876 "Eine ausnahme der ersten
lautverschiebung", Kuhn's Zeitschrift 23: 97-130.
Se, nonostante l'aiuto (non sempre dirimente) della seconda
Lautverschiebung, e a volte difficile decidere sull'origine gotica o longobarda di un germanismo, l'apporto lessicale carolingio--un franco contrassegnato da un primo adattamento alla fonetica romanza (langue d'oil) nonche da una semantica piu astratta ed elevata, gia di castello--e di piu agevole identificazione (cfr., per un abbondante campionario di prestiti longobardi, spesso marcati invece da un'espressivita di tipo popolare, 73-92).
The poet is constantly in search of language, perhaps "warten auf erneute
Lautverschiebung," or observing "Kollegen auf Jagd nach Superlativen." Poetry is compared with mathematics in "Rechnung mit Unbekannten," and both are revealed to be matters of faith.
La
Lautverschiebung, literalmente, cambio, desplazamiento de sonido, en este contexto linguistico, consiste en una mutacion consonantica hacia la la desfonologizacion debido a neutralizacion.
Prior to the identification of laws regulating
Lautverschiebung, there had been little means of charting linguistic change in history without recourse to value-laden terms such as progress or degeneration.(5) Given the characteristic eighteenth-century view of classical Latin and Greek as the pinnacles from which human language subsequently decayed, change was inevitably regarded with suspicion.
