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What does P.Gmc. stand for?

Proto-Germanic (language)


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9780773450202 The evolution of Germanic phonological systems; proto-Germanic, gothic, West Germanic, and Scandinavian.
Wiik proposes that the cause of the consonant shifts in Proto-Germanic described by Grimm's Law and Verner's Law was incomplete learning of Proto Germanic by shifting Finno-Ugric speakers (Wiik 1997a; 2002).
The Proto-Germanic i-stem (masculine) paradigm can be reconstructed as follows (after Bammesberger 1992: 125; Krahe 1969: 26-29; Ringe 2006: 272): Table 1.
He noticed that Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives (f, [theta], x, and s) became voiced fricatives ([beta] [delta] [gamma] unless they were prevented from doing so by any one of the following three conditions: i) being the first sound in a word; ii) being next to another voiceless sound; or iii) having the IE stress on the immediately preceding syllable.
Many, perhaps most, historical phonologists would probably favour a trilled articulation as the expected value of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic [sup.
The most natural one seems to be that speakers of Uralic languages perhaps weren't present in the place where Proto-Germanic emerged.
He noticed that Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives (f, [theta], x, and s) became voiced fricatives ([beta] [delta] [gamma] unless they were prevented from doing so by any one of the following three conditions: i) being the first sound in a word; ii) being next to another voiceless sound; or iii) having the IE stress on the immediately preceding syllable.
ABSTRACT The original Proto-Germanic consonantal alternations of voiceless and voiced fricatives, generated by the operation of Verner's Law, though slightly modified, were relatively well attested in Old English.

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