Sievers' Law in Germanic

by Charles Michael Barrack

One of the most interesting changes in Proto-Germanic was the alternation of y and w after short syllables with i and u after long, respectively - an alternation with far-reaching effects. Described by Eduard Sievers in 1878, this law has been the subject of controversy ever since. Is it related to a similar phenomenon in Vedic Sanskrit, and was it, therefore, Indo-European in origin? What is its relationship to alliterative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820430420
• ISBN13: 9780820430423
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 288 Pages