The Earliest Germanic Umlauts and the Gothic Migrations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2906647 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William H Bennett (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1952 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 339 |
| Publication date | 1952-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/410103 |
| OpenAlex | W2334355568 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In comparative Germanic grammar it is conventionally assumed that IE e eu became respectively PGc. i iu when a high front vowel or glide ( i ī j ) occurred in the following syllable. Apart from differences of opinion regarding the manner in which this development took place, the grammars show very little disagreement on the subject. Nearly all assign the change to Proto-Germanic (or at least pre-Gothic) times, although Schulze in particular has noted an apparent lack of umlaut in early runic inscriptions and foreign spellings of Germanic names. It is also a conventional assumption that IE i u became respectively PGc. e o when a low or mid vowel ( ) occurred originally in the next syllable, provided that neither i ī j nor a cluster of nasal plus consonant intervened. In this instance, however, some scholars have doubted that the change took place in Proto-Germanic times
Art · German · Germanic languages · Linguistics · North Germanic languages · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1968 - 2019 (52) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |