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Neogrammarian — The Neogrammarians (also Young Grammarians, German Junggrammatiker) were a German school of linguists, originally at the University of Leipzig, in the late 19th century who proposed the Neogrammarian hypothesis of the regularity of sound change.… … Wikipedia
neogrammarian — /nee oh greuh mair ee euhn/, Ling. n. 1. a member of the Junggrammatiker. adj. 2. of or pertaining to the Junggrammatiker. [1880 85; trans. of G Junggrammatiker] * * * ▪ German scholar German … Universalium
Neogrammarian — noun A member of a 19th century school of German linguists who first advanced the theory of regular sound change; or a follower of that school … Wiktionary
neogrammarian — neo·grammarian … English syllables
neogrammarian — “+ noun Etymology: ne + grammarian; translation of German junggrammatiker : one of a school of philologists arising in Germany about 1875, advocating the more exact formulation of phonetic law and its more rigid application to linguistic… … Useful english dictionary
Neogrammatical — Neogrammarian Ne o*gram*ma ri*an, n. [Neo + grammarian; a translation of G. junggrammatiker.] One of a group of philologists who apply phonetic laws more widely and strictly than was formerly done, and who maintain that these laws admit of no… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Comparative method — This article is about the comparative method in linguistics. For other kinds of comparative methods, see Comparative (disambiguation). Linguistic map representing a Tree model of the Romance languages based on the comparative method. Here the… … Wikipedia
Brugmann, Karl — ▪ German linguist in full Friedrich Karl Brugmann born , March 16, 1849, Wiesbaden, Nassau [Germany] died June 29, 1919, Leipzig, Ger. German linguist who gained a position of preeminence in comparative Indo European linguistics during… … Universalium
Sound change — includes any processes of language change that affect pronunciation (phonetic change) or sound system structures (phonological change). Sound change can consist of the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature) by… … Wikipedia
Lexical diffusion — In historical linguistics, lexical diffusion is both a phenomenon and a theory. The phenomenon is that by which a phoneme is modified in a subset of the lexicon, and spreads gradually to other lexical items. For example, in English, /uː/ has… … Wikipedia
