Timeline for Verner's Law and 'ge-'
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| Jan 8, 2016 at 23:08 | comment | added | Ned | Continuing - there may be occasions in modern german with separable verbs where the 'ge-' is not the first syllable in the world - but isn't the use of the prefix as a past participle marker a secondary phenomenon? | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 23:05 | comment | added | Ned | Thanks jknappen - but I don't understand how morphological levelling could work herew. Surely all examples of 'ge-' will occur at the start of a word which will always not be affected by Verner's Law. | |
| Jan 8, 2016 at 15:21 | history | answered | Sir Cornflakes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |