No Verner in Gothic verbs - why?

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.

Aha!

Burrow, The Sanskrit Language, p. 114
"
Elsewhere the accent might be dropped in certain circumstances. (1)
... (2) The finite verb in the main clause of a sentence is unaccented
unless it appears at the beginning of a sentence, in which case it
retains its natural accent. In dependent clauses it retained its
accent whatever its position. In this case a verbal preposition is
most commonly compounded with the verb and loses its accent, e.g.
prá gacchati 'he goes forward', yadi pragácchati 'if he goes forward'.
"

Now if Grimm and Verner applied to this input, the result would be two
verb paradigms for each verb, namely one for the simple verb stem,
which is not affected by Verner, and one for the preverbed verb stem,
which is. The observed discrepancy between Gothic and other-Germanic
verbs is now the result of a choice between these two paradigms.


Torsten