Talk:Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages

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Missing laws from Collinge[edit]

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

--Trɔpʏliʊmblah 20:56, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]