Theo Vennemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 401653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theo Vennemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theo |
| FAMILY NAME | Vennemann |
| SIGNATURE | VENNEMANN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Grundzuge der Sprachtheorie
Theories of Linguistic Preferences as a Basis for Linguistic Explanations
Grundzuge der Sprachtheorie
Sound Change and Syllable Structure in Germanic Phonology
Two competing theories exist about the Proto-Germanic syllabication of and similar sequences: one proposes that the division was , the other, . Furthermore, three major phonological developments in Germanic groups have never received a satisfactory explanation: consonant gemination in West Germanic, vowel lengthening (with differential constraints) in North Germanic, and glide strengthening in Gothic. This paper proposes a uniform solution for al…
Vowel Alternations in English, German, and Gothic
Universal Syllabic Phonology
Categorial Grammar and Consistent Basic Vx Serialization
Semantic structures. A study in the relation between semantics and syntax
Sanskrit Ruki and the Concept of a Natural Class
Phonetic features and phonological features
Phonetic Detail in Assimilation
A certain class of vowel changes caused by consonants in Germanic languages, foremost among them the OHG monophthongization ( ai → ē before h, r, w , #; au → ō before h, r , dentals, #), have never been given a systematic explanatory formulation. I show in this paper that all these changes are height assimilation rules. This explanation requires the introduction of a new convention into the theory of phonology: assimilatory features in a rule env…
The Phonology of Gothic Vowels
Few languages have received more phonological investigation than Biblical Gothic, and with fewer generally accepted results. Disagreement on the consonantism centers around certain details, but in the vowel system it concerns the very heart of the matter. Posited inventories range from five to twelve vowel segments, not counting diphthongs. With the century-old battle for monophthongal interpretation of ai , au, iu finally decided (or very nearly…
Language Acquisition and Phonological Theory
Sound Change and Syllable Structure in Germanic Phonology
Two competing theories exist about the Proto-Germanic syllabication of and similar sequences: one proposes that the division was , the other, . Furthermore, three major phonological developments in Germanic groups have never received a satisfactory explanation: consonant gemination in West Germanic, vowel lengthening (with differential constraints) in North Germanic, and glide strengthening in Gothic. This paper proposes a uniform solution for al…
Semantic structures. A study in the relation between semantics and syntax
Phonetic features and phonological features
Phonetic Detail in Assimilation
A certain class of vowel changes caused by consonants in Germanic languages, foremost among them the OHG monophthongization ( ai → ē before h, r, w , #; au → ō before h, r , dentals, #), have never been given a systematic explanatory formulation. I show in this paper that all these changes are height assimilation rules. This explanation requires the introduction of a new convention into the theory of phonology: assimilatory features in a rule env…
English as a Contact Language
This article places English language contacts in a typological and comparative perspective. It begins with a review of the essentials of language contact terminology: concepts such as substrate, superstrate, and the various kinds of adstrate, as well as borrowing, importation, language shift, and interlanguage are defined and illustrated. Two sections describe substratal and superstratal contact influence in the history of English: language shift…
Sanskrit Ruki and the Concept of a Natural Class
The Phonology of Gothic Vowels
Few languages have received more phonological investigation than Biblical Gothic, and with fewer generally accepted results. Disagreement on the consonantism centers around certain details, but in the vowel system it concerns the very heart of the matter. Posited inventories range from five to twelve vowel segments, not counting diphthongs. With the century-old battle for monophthongal interpretation of ai , au, iu finally decided (or very nearly…
Language Acquisition and Phonological Theory
Phonetic Detail in Assimilation
A certain class of vowel changes caused by consonants in Germanic languages, foremost among them the OHG monophthongization ( ai → ē before h, r, w , #; au → ō before h, r , dentals, #), have never been given a systematic explanatory formulation. I show in this paper that all these changes are height assimilation rules. This explanation requires the introduction of a new convention into the theory of phonology: assimilatory features in a rule env…
Phonetic features and phonological features
Sanskrit Ruki and the Concept of a Natural Class
Categorial Grammar and Consistent Basic Vx Serialization
Semantic structures. A study in the relation between semantics and syntax
Vowel Alternations in English, German, and Gothic
Universal Syllabic Phonology
Theories of Linguistic Preferences as a Basis for Linguistic Explanations
Grundzuge der Sprachtheorie
Sound Change and Syllable Structure in Germanic Phonology
Two competing theories exist about the Proto-Germanic syllabication of and similar sequences: one proposes that the division was , the other, . Furthermore, three major phonological developments in Germanic groups have never received a satisfactory explanation: consonant gemination in West Germanic, vowel lengthening (with differential constraints) in North Germanic, and glide strengthening in Gothic. This paper proposes a uniform solution for al…
Verb-second, verb late, and the brace construction in Germanic
Grundzuge der Sprachtheorie
Die Niederdeutschen Grundlagen Des Standarddeutschen Lautsystems
Article DIE NIEDERDEUTSCHEN GRUNDLAGEN DES STANDARDDEUTSCHEN LAUTSYSTEMS was published on January 1, 1985 in the journal Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (volume 107, issue Jahresband).
Sprache und Grammatik
Preference Laws for Syllable Structure and the Explanation of Sound Change
The New Sound of Indo-European
Forum
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Preference Laws for Syllable Structure and the Explanation of Sound Change
The Relative Chronology of the High Germanic Consonant Shift and the West Germanic Anaptyxis
This paper studies systematic relationships between two sound changes, the High Germanic Consonant Shift and the West Germanic Anaptyxis. Since the High Germanic languages, i.e., High German and Lombardic, are a division of the West Germanic Sprachbund, it might be thought — and this is indeed the general view — that the more extensive West Germanic change necessarily antedates the more limited High Germanic change. But an examination of the rela…
Skizze der deutschen Wortprosodie
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Indo-European Reconstruction and Historical Methodologies
Language Universals
It is traditionally believed that language universals have their source in the uniform genetic endowment of all human beings. In his keynote address "Investigating linguistic universals" presented at the 12th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, held at Aix-en-Provence in 1991, Ian Maddieson has proposed a second source: the arbitrary features and idiosyncrasies of a primordial parent language of more than 100,000 years ago. He attempts t…
Syntax
Philosophy (29 works) · Linguistics (24 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (15 works) · History (14 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (9 works) · German (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works)