Some famous Indo-European sound laws #
- Grimm’s law.
- Great Vowel Shift
- The Law of the Palatals
- Consonant Clusters - Bartholomae’s Law
- Grassmann’s Law - Dissimilation
- Verner’s Law
“The discovery of several Laws that accounted to apparent exceptions to Grimm’s Law led to the Neogrammarian’s slogan:
“Sound laws suffer no exceptions.”
This was an early realization that language has a systematicity and has led to a guiding principle underlying much of modern linguistics.”
AL commented: what is interesting - those laws have no exceptions, except that they have plenty.