The Role of Cognition

Abstract

Ever since the early days of Indo-European philology at the beginning of the nineteenth century, scholars have been trying to find regular patterns of evolution in language in order to draw conclusions on the mechanisms and diachronic theories involved. The search for principles of meaning-change and their origins proved to be a hard task. Research made relatively rapid progress with regard to more rigid structures in language such as phonetic systems. In the case of sound shifts, comprehensive theories were put forward such as Grimm’s Law on the First Consonant Shift in early Germanic languages (Prokosch, 1938) and the Great Vowel Shift in Middle to Modern English (Jespersen [1909] 1939). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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