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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> Verner doesn't seem to have applied in Gothic verbs, but it has in
> other Gothic words. Verner applies everywhere in North and West
> Germanic languages. It almost seems like there was no stress in Gothic
> verbs.
Had that been the case, Vernerian voicing would have thrived in Gothic
verbs, as VL normally operated between _unaccented_ syllables. We have
examples of VL in derived verbs like causative <frawardjan> (vs. basic
<frawaírþan>), <sandjan> or <hazjan> (though many causatives were
remodelled if analogy was possible), and there are even cler, if
sporadic, traces of paradigmatic alternations in the strong verb system,
e.g. sle:pan : gasaízle:p.
Piotr