Talk:Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages
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Missing laws from Collinge
A sorted working list with comments. At least the following would probably need to be added:
- Fortunatov's law I
- *l + dental > retroflex in Indo-Aryan
- Law of Palatals
- *K⁽ʷ⁾e > *Ča in Indo-Iranian
- Rix's law
- *HR̥C- is subject to laryngeal vowel coloring in Greek
- Sievers' law II
- *gʷʰ > *w in Germanic, various conditions have been proposed
- Thurneysen's law
- proposes fricative voicing dissimilation in Gothic after unstressed syllables; many details disputed
- Thurneysen-Havet's law
- *o > *a in Latin, at minimum before *wV́
- Wackernagel's law II
- *V₁V₂ > *V̄₂ crasis in Greek compound words
Missing laws concerning accentuation are particularly numerous:
- From Balto-Slavic or Slavic: Dolobko's law, Ebeling's law, Fortunatov's law II, Garde's rule, Hartmann's law, Illič-Svityč's law, Kortlandt's law, Nieminen's law, Pedersen's law II, Šaxmatov's law
- From Greek: Bártoli's law, Hirt's law II, Vendryes' law, Wheeler's law
Proposed but obsolete or disputed laws from Appendix I:
- Bugge's rule: proposes as an extension to Verner's that voiceless stops > voiced fricatives word-initially when at least two syllables away from stress
- Endzelin's law: proposes *éi > *ḗ > ie in Baltic
- Georgiev's law: proposes word-initial *V̆CC > *CV̄C in Slavic
- Streitberg's law: proposes that long grades would always occur preceding a zero grade
Some laws seem too narrow or too general in scope to belong in this article:
- Aitken's law = Scots vowel length rule
- Bugge's canon: levelling of Old Latin -d to -t in personal endings
- Mac Neill's law: final *n, *l > nn, ll after a *short vowel in Irish
- Notker's law: an orthographic rule from Old High German
while some are morphological or syntactic rather than sound laws:
- Caland's law = Caland system; not usually considered a "law" (as also admitted by Collinge)
- Wackernagel's law: governs the sentence position of clitics
- Watkin's law: a general law of the special role of 3rd person in personal paradigm evolution
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