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‖ Junggrammatiker, n. pl. Philol.|ˈjʊŋgræˌmɑːtɪkə(r)|
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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’. Hence junggrammatisch a.
1922O. Jespersen Language 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). 1936J. R. Kantor Objective Psychol. Gram. viii. 108 The Junggrammatiker..believed themselves to have discovered absolute phonetic laws. 1936Language XII. 58 There is another point of view,..an organic development..of the essential core of truth in the Junggrammatiker doctrine. 1938Year'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. 1953J. 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. 1958A. S. C. Ross Etym. 8 It is certainly quite impossible for anyone to understand Laryngeal Theory without being thoroughly familiar with junggrammatisch Ablaut. 1965Language XLI. 187 Brugmann..accepted the originally humorous epithet Junggrammatiker and used it as a rallying cry. |