This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...the development of the sound-laws was the same in these various languages, and not to assume that the forms of a language a are necessarily new formations, and that regularly they would appear in the same form which they bear in a language /3. I hold therefore that not one of the objections hitherto brought forward is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...the development of the sound-laws was the same in these various languages, and not to assume that the forms of a language a are necessarily new formations, and that regularly they would appear in the same form which they bear in a language /3. I hold therefore that not one of the objections hitherto brought forward is conclusive. According to Sievers' theory the forms in each of the series A 1, 2, 3 are perfectly regular, and the attractiveness of this simple explanation cannot be denied. Before going further it will be convenient to examine the various theories which have been substituted for it. Streitberg's explanation is as follows. In A 1, secg, cyn come regularly from secgi, cynni, the-i being lost contemporaneously with-i in-iesti). secgi, cynni came from Urgerm. sa-, iz, kunim with introduction of the geminated consonant from the oblique cases (P.B.B. xiv. 188, Urg. Gr. 146, Anm. 2). In A 3, sib comes from sibbi for sifii ( Urgerm. sfiii), with-bb-from the oblique cases (P.B.B. xv. 501 f., Urg. Gr. 175). In view of Goth. sibja etc. this explanation can hardly be considered satisfactory. The forms of A 2 (N.A. pi. cyn etc.) are apparently not explained by Streitberg. But if sib cannot come regularly from Germ. siZyo, cyn must also be a new formation--possibly due to productive syncretism with the N.A. sg. But what form would Germ. si$jd, kunjo--supposing such forms to have existed--regularly take in Old Euglish? The evidence of the language itself gives us no reason to suppose that they would appear as sibbe, cynne. Van Helten (P.B.B. xvI. 273 ff.) explains the forms in A 1 as follows: secg etc. come from sii (sei) in the same way as by Streitberg's theory, but sai (sei) was the regular result of Germ. sayoz. Later however (P.B.B. xxI. 4...
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