Lautverschiebung

Related to Lautverschiebung: Consonant Shift

Laut´ver`schie`bung

    (lout´fĕr`shē`bŎng)
n.1.(Philol.) The regular changes which the primitive Indo-European stops, or mute consonants, underwent in the Teutonic languages, probably as early as the 3d century b. c. , often called the first Lautverschiebung, sound shifting, or consonant shifting.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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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.
Ein Wort, ein Ort, or how words create places: interview with Yoko Tawada
Verner, Karl 1876 "Eine ausnahme der ersten lautverschiebung", Kuhn's Zeitschrift 23: 97-130.
Grammatical change in Old English strong verbs: early traces of elimination
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).
Arrigo Castellani. Grammatica storica della lingua italiana
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.
Dagmar Leupold. Byrons Feldbett
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.
Misrepresentation in Hensleigh Wedgwood's review of Jacob Grimm's 'Deutsche Grammatik.'

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