Such radical forms had occasional precedent in Renaissance attempts to write in Demotic, and reflected Psycharis'linguistic training as a Neogrammarian, mistrusting the possibility of exceptions in linguistic evolution.
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As a young man, Brugmann sided with the emerging Neogrammarian school, which asserted the inviolability of phonetic laws ( Brugmann's law ) and adhered to a strict research methodology.
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William Labov, in " Principles of Linguistic Change ", takes the position that there are two types of sound changes : regular sound change ( respecting the Neogrammarian hypothesis ) and lexical diffusion.
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The only Neogrammarian to deal with this question was Berthold Delbr�ck, Brugmann's collaborator on the " Grundri?der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen " ( Greenberg 2005 : 158-159, 288 ).
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This Neogrammarian school of thought also regarded speech, rather than writing, as the essential root of language; as a rule it is the spoken language that naturally takes the lead in evolution, with written versions following later or not at all.
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It was received with great enthusiasm by the young generation of comparative philologists, the so-called " Junggrammatiker ", because it was an important argument in favour of the Neogrammarian dogma that the sound laws were without exceptions ( " die Ausnahmslosigkeit der Lautgesetze " ).
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For two branches ( Semitic and the consonants of Egyptian ) there are ancient texts going back for almost 4, 000 years or more, but Semitic and Egyptian actually share relatively few basic vocabulary words, and it's extremely difficult to " reconstruct " things according to rigorous neogrammarian sound correspondences.
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Kroonen ( 2009 : 53 ) pointed out that, by virtue of having first been published in 1869, the hypothesis of expressive gemination " basically stems from the time before the rise of the Neogrammarian doctrine of " Ausnahmslosigkeit der Lautgesetze " " ('exceptionlessness of the sound laws').
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In his textbooks he selected Indo-European examples that supported the key Neogrammarian hypothesis of the regularity of sound change, and emphasized a sequence of steps essential to success in comparative work : ( a ) appropriate data in the form of texts which must be studied intensively and analysed; ( b ) application of the analogy.
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Another factor that may have contributed to the relative neglect of creole languages in linguistics is that they do not fit the 19th-century neogrammarian " tree model " for the evolution of languages, and its postulated regularity of sound changes ( these critics including the earliest advocates of the Johannes Schmidt and Hugo Schuchardt, the forerunners of modern sociolinguistics ).
