Definitions
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- n. A member of a 19th-century school of German linguists who first advanced the theory of regular sound change; or a follower of that school.
Etymologies
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Calque of the German Junggrammatiker.
Examples
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However the Neogrammarian Hypothesis regarding sound shifts that they are regular and exceptionless has allowes us to elucidate the genetic relationships between languages, poetic elements, and so forth to a degree not otherwise possible.
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The thesis that “Sound-laws have no exceptions” is the best known Neogrammarian thesis.
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