Karl (Adolph) Verner [kɑ(ː)l ˈʋaɐ̯ˀnɐ] (born 7 March 1846 in Århus; died 5 November 1896 in Copenhagen) was a Danish linguist. Events 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus For the game see 1846 (board game. Year 1846 ( MDCCCXLVI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display Geography The city lies roughly at the geographical centre of Denmark on the peninsula of Events 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier ( Brittany) Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Copenhagen (ˌkəʊpənˈheɪgən ˌkəʊpənˈhɑːgən ˈkəʊpənˌheɪgən ˈkəʊpənˌhɑːgən kʰøb̥ənˈhɑʊ̯ˀn kʰøb̥m̩ˈhɑʊ̯ˀn is the capital and largest city The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields He is remembered today for Verner's law, which he discovered in 1875. Verner's law, stated by Karl Verner in 1875 describes a historical Sound change in the Proto-Germanic language whereby voiceless fricatives * Year 1875 ( MDCCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
Verner, whose interest in languages was stimulated by reading about the work of Rasmus Christian Rask, began his university studies in 1864. Rasmus (Christian Rask (ʁɑsmus ʁɑsɡ̊ ( November 22, 1787 - November 14, 1832) Danish scholar and Philologist, was He studied Oriental, Germanic and Slavic languages, and then served in the army before resuming his studies. The Orient is a term which simply means the " East " It originated in Western Asia to describe that part of the world The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European (IE Language family. The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) a group of closely related Languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages He travelled to Russia in December 1871, spending nearly a year learning the language. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending His first scientific paper was Nogle Raskiana (1874).
At the same time he began to study the accent of Danish and the Slavic languages. In Linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain Syllables in a word Danish ( d̥ænsɡ̊ is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the According to his own account, upon getting up one morning, he was puzzled by the question why the Gothic words fadar and broþar have different consonants after the root vowel. Gothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. In Articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a Speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the upper Vocal tract, the upper vocal In Phonetics, a vowel is a Sound in spoken Language, such as English ah! or oh!, pronounced with an open Vocal tract Since he was preoccupied with the study of accent at the time, he sought the explanation in that direction. This led to the formation of Verner's Law. He finished the relevant paper and sent it to Vilhelm Thomsen in 1875. Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen ( January 25, 1842 – May 12, 1927) was a Danish linguist. Urged by Thomsen, he published it a year later.
Despite his achievement, Verner considered himself only an amateur of German philology. He declined certain offers of professorship, contenting himself to be a librarian at Halle. Halle is the largest city in the German State of Saxony-Anhalt. With reluctance, he applied for the Bopp prize, which went to him in 1877. Franz Bopp ( September 14, 1791 – October 23, 1867) was a German linguist known for extensive comparative work on He became an extraodinary professor only in 1888, when he was also elected a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters ( Danish: Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab) is a Danish non-governmental science Academy founded November
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- Daniel Kilham Dodge's review of Verner Dahlerup's Nekrolog over Karl Verner, American Journal of Philology, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1897. American Journal of Philology ( AJP) is an Academic journal founded in 1880 by the renowned classical scholar Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve. Available through JSTOR. JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a United States -based online system for archiving Academic journals founded in 1995
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