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Definition of Neogrammarians

Neogrammarian
Neogrammarian Ne`o*gram*ma"ri*an, n. [Neo- + grammarian; a translation of G. junggrammatiker.] One of a group of philologists who apply phonetic laws more widely and strictly than was formerly done, and who maintain that these laws admit of no real exceptions. -- Ne`o*gram*mat"ic*al, a.

Meaning of Neogrammarians from wikipedia

- many investigators continue to adhere to the Neogrammarian doctrine. Other contributions of the Neogrammarians to general linguistics were: The object of...
- is the Neogrammarians' fundamental ****umption that "sound laws have no exceptions". When it was initially proposed, critics of the Neogrammarians proposed...
- is that sound change is regular. The principle was summarized by the Neogrammarians in the late 19th century in the slogan "sound laws suffer no exceptions"...
- axiom of historical linguistics, established by the linguists of the Neogrammarian school of thought in the 19th century, is that sound change is said...
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- conditioning factor. That is the traditional view expressed by the Neogrammarians. In the past decades, however, it has been shown that sound change does...
- up to Karl Brugmann's Grundriss, published in the 1880s. Brugmann's neogrammarian reevaluation of the field and Ferdinand de Saussure's development of...
- Bartoli as a reaction to the Neogrammarians. Along with the Neoidealists it was one of the main rivals of the Neogrammarians, until structuralism, which...
- Comparative Linguistics Synchrony and diachrony Protolanguage Language death Neogrammarians More... Language change Sound change Language change Semantic change...
- Comparative Linguistics Synchrony and diachrony Protolanguage Language death Neogrammarians More... Language change Sound change Language change Semantic change...