d) Grimm's Law (or the First Sound Shift) doesn’t help to explain the consonant changes from P-I-E to Germanic. 


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d) Grimm's Law (or the First Sound Shift) doesn’t help to explain the consonant changes from P-I-E to Germanic.

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c) contraction; 

d) mutation before h. 

10) Choose the incorrect letter.

a)The Germanic Consonant Shift is also known as the First Sound Shift or Grimm's Law.

b) Grimm's Lawimplies a set of relationships among the consonants of the Germanic and non-Germanic Indo-European languages.  

c) The Germanic Consonant Shiftis considered to be Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law taken together.

d) Grimm's Law (or the First Sound Shift) doesn’t help to explain the consonant changes from P-I-E to Germanic.

 11. What law do the examples in the table illustrate? Choose the correct answer.

 

 

IE

Germanic

 

IE

Germanic

 

There were shortcomings. It didn’t always work.

IE

Germanic

1.

bh>b

bhratar

broþar

b>p

abel

apple

p>f

pater

fadar

2.

dh>d

madhu

medu

d>t

decem

ten

t>þ (θ)

tres

three

3.

gh>g

hostis

gast

g>k

genu

knee

k>h

noctem

kerd

nahts

heart

a) Grimm’s Law;

b) Verner's Law;

c) Jespersen’s Law;

d) Horn’s Law.

12. Choose the incorrect answer.

a) Looking at Sanskrit forms and comparing them to Germanic ones Verner noticed that the placement of STRESS (ACCENT) affected how Indo-European consonants were shifted.

b) Karl Verner published his findings in the article “An exception to the first consonant shift” in one of the prestigious linguistic research journals. 

c)According to K. Verner Law voiceless fricatives became voiced when they were in a voiced environment and the IndoEuropean stress was not on the preceding syllable.

d) Verner’s Law was discovered in the 18-th century.

13. What law do the examples in the table illustrate? Choose the correct answer.

s

z     s (later)

z     r

snusós

snușā́

νυός

nurus

snuzō

 

snoru

 

a)  Grimm’s Law;

b) Verner's Law;

c) Jespersen’s Law;

d) Horn’s Law.



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