Editing Verner's law (section)

== Significance ==
Karl Verner published his discovery in the article "{{lang|de|Eine Ausnahme der ersten Lautverschiebung}}" (An exception to the first sound shift) in Kuhn's ''[[Historische Sprachforschung|Journal of Comparative Linguistic Research]]'' in 1877,<ref>Verner, K. 1877. Eine Ausnahme der ersten Lautverschiebung. ''Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprach-forschung auf dem Gebiete der indo-germanischen Sprachen'', 23.97–130.</ref> but he had already presented his theory on 1 May 1875 in a comprehensive personal letter to his friend and mentor, [[Vilhelm Thomsen]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2019}}

A letter shows that [[Eduard Sievers]] had hit on the same explanation by 1874, but did not publish it.{{sfn|Fulk|2018|loc=p. 110, n. 1}}

Verner's theory was received with great enthusiasm by the young generation of comparative philologists, the so-called {{lang|de|Junggrammatiker}}, because it was an important argument in favour of the [[Neogrammarian]] dogma that the [[sound laws]] were without exceptions ("{{lang|de|die Ausnahmslosigkeit der Lautgesetze}}").