Junggrammatikern.
/ˈjʊŋɡraˌmɑːtɪkə/ Philology.
With plural agreement. A name given to members of a late 19th-century school of historical linguists who held that phonetic changes (sound laws) operated without exceptions. The name was accepted by the persons concerned and by others, and has been anglicized as ‘neogrammarians’.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > phonology and branches > person(s)
phonologist1818
Young Grammarians1883
neogrammarian1885
Junggrammatiker1922
phonemicist1938
Praguian1957
laryngealist1964
Tragerian1966
Praguean1970
1922 O. Jespersen Lang. iv. 93 The ‘blind’ operation of phonetic laws became the chief tenet of a new school of ‘young-grammarians’ or ‘junggrammatiker’ (Brugmann, Delbrück, Osthoff, Paul, and others).
1936 J. R. Kantor Objective Psychol. Gram. viii. 108 The Junggrammatiker..believed themselves to have discovered absolute phonetic laws.
1936 Language 12 58 There is another point of view,..an organic development..of the essential core of truth in the Junggrammatiker doctrine.
1938 Year's Work Eng. Stud. 1936 30 Wilhelm Havers..well summarizes the history of the changing attitude towards ‘sound-laws’ since the first confident days of the Ausnahmslosigkeit of the Junggrammatiker.
1953 J. B. Carroll Study of Lang. ii. 50 In opposition to the neo~grammarians (Junggrammatiker), as Leskien, Osthoff, and Brugmann came to be called, Schuchardt (1885), Curtius, and Ascoli pointed to what seemed to be exceptions to phonetic laws.
1965 Language 41 187 Brugmann..accepted the originally humorous epithet Junggrammatiker and used it as a rallying cry.
Derivatives
junggrammatisch adj.
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1958 A. S. C. Ross Etymol. 8 It is certainly quite impossible for anyone to understand Laryngeal Theory without being thoroughly familiar with junggrammatisch Ablaut.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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