The Neogrammarian doctrine: sound laws admit no exception

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1. Story
2. In the preface to the first volume of Morphologische Untersuchungen, Hermann Osthoff and Karl Brugmann set out the programme of the Leipzig school, whose central claim was that sound change proceeds without exception within a given dialect and period, with apparent exceptions to be explained by conditioning environments, analogy or borrowing. The doctrine followed directly from Verner's result of the previous year. It has been qualified extensively since — lexical diffusion and sociolinguistic variation both bear on it — but as a working assumption it remains what makes the comparative method a demonstration rather than an impression.
3. Knowledge
4. The comparative method
5. The regularity of sound change
6. The Neogrammarian doctrine: sound laws admit no exception
7. Connections
8. Verner explains the exceptions to Grimm's Law
9. The regularity of sound change
10. The comparative method
11. The comparative method
12. Grimm's Law — the first Germanic sound shift
13. Grimm formulates the first sound shift as a system
14. The Neogrammarian doctrine: sound laws admit no exception
15. Language death
16. Contact, borrowing and the limits of resemblance
17. The regularity of sound change
18. Bayesian phylogenetic dating of language families
19. Sino-Tibetan
20. Afroasiatic
21. Proto-Indo-European
22. Sir William Jones
23. The Neogrammarian doctrine: sound laws admit no exception
24. Glottochronology proposes to date language splits arithmetically
25. Language in the Americas, and its rejection
26. Evidence
27. Supports the attribution of the exceptionless-sound-law doctrine to the Neogrammarian programme stated in this preface. V55 verification basis: this session had no access to any source — WebFetch was egress-blocked for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring — so the cited work was not retrieved, and no page, volume or figure quoted from it was re-checked. The doctrine is paraphrased in English; no German sentence is quoted and no translation is reproduced, because the text was not consulted.