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The linguistic analysis of runic inscriptions on the Continent tends to focus on individual texts or on groups of texts seen as parallel. We can advance our understanding of the state of Continental Germanic dialects in the 5th-7th centuries by examining the evidence for the major sound changes in a larger dataset. The study begins with a brief discussion of the Proto-Germanic phonemic system and the major processes by which the systems of Old High German (OHG) and Old Saxon (OS) develop from it. The main body of the work consists of the analysis of a corpus of 90 inscriptions (including, but not confined to, those conventionally labeled "South Germanic") for evidence of these changes. Rather than making the individual inscription the focus for analysis, the investigation groups together all possible witnesses to a particular phonological process. In many respects, the data are found to be consistent with the anticipated developments of OHG and OS; but we encounter some problems which the existing models of the sound changes cannot account for. There is also some evidence for processes at work in the dialects of the inscriptions which are not attested in OHG or OS.

Germanic languages --- English language --- Proto-Germanic language --- Inscriptions, Runic. --- Comparative linguistics. --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Historical linguistics --- Runic inscriptions --- Inscriptions, Norse --- Runes --- Verner's law --- Phonology. --- History --- 5th to 7th centuries. --- Germanic dialects. --- Southern Germany. --- phonetic language. --- runes.

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Linguistics --- Verner, K. --- Germanic languages --- Indo-European languages --- Langues germaniques --- Langues indo-européennes --- Phonology --- Phonologie --- Verner, Karl Adolf, --- -Indo-European languages --- -Aryan languages --- Indo-Germanic languages --- Teutonic languages --- Verner, Karl Adolf --- Phonology. --- -Phonology --- Langues indo-européennes --- Sievers' law --- Verner's law --- Verner (loi de)

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Indo-European languages --- Laryngeals (Phonetics) --- Langues indo-européennes --- Laryngales --- Phonology. --- Phonologie --- H (The sound) --- 801.4 --- Fonetiek. Fonologie --- 801.4 Fonetiek. Fonologie --- Langues indo-européennes --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Phonetics --- Sievers' law --- Verner's law --- Consonants --- Phonology --- Indo-European languages - Phonology.

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The red thread which runs through this book is a quest for relative chronology of linguistic developments. The probability of a reconstruction can be judged against the background of the transitions which it implies for the linguistic system as a whole. The reconstructions are always bottom-up, never top-down. It follows that the chapters on Germanic can be read without reference to the Indo-European background and that the Indo-Uralic part of the book can be left out of consideration if one does not want to look beyond Proto-Indo-European. The initial chapters of the book offer an introduction to the background and methodology of the reconstructions with a discussion of the spread of the Indo-Europeans, the role of general linguistics in linguistic reconstruction, the nature of mixed languages, the origin of the Goths, the relations between Indo-European, Uralic and Caucasian languages, and the structure and development of Proto-Indo-European. The following chapters deal with the phonology and morphosyntax of Indo-European, Greek, Indo-Iranian and Tocharian. These are followed by a discussion of Germanic phonology, verb classes, verbal and nominal inflexion, and specific issues in English, German and Scandinavian languages. After a short treatment of Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic and Italo-Celtic topics, the volume is concluded with a discussion of Anatolian and Indo-Uralic phonology and morphosyntax. The book is of interest to students of Germanic, Indo-European and historical linguistics.

Germanic languages --- Indo-European languages --- Ural-Altaic languages --- Phonology. --- Scythian languages --- Turanian languages --- Sievers' law --- Verner's law --- Altaic languages --- Samoyedic languages --- Germanic languages. --- Indo-European languages. --- Uralic languages. --- Uralian languages --- Aryan languages --- Indo-Germanic languages --- Teutonic languages --- Uralic languages --- History. --- Grammar, Historical --- Phonology, Historical