그림의 법칙: 연쇄 밀기 입장과 연쇄 당김 입장

Grimm's Law: Push or Drag Chain Revisited

The first Germanic consonant shift, or the so-called 'Grimm's Law', which shows the systematic regularities between the Germanic languages and other Indo-European languages, is one of the most important sound changes in the world language history. It tells what consonants In proto-Indo-European languages had changed into what consonants in Germanic languages, and it is assumed that these sound changes stretched over centuries. However, it is still controversial over what caused these sound changes and In what order these changes had occurred In this paper I will discuss the merits and demerits of two reciprocal accounts, eg the push-chain type of the functional account vs the drag-chain type of the structural account, along with the traditional accounts such as Grimm's and Jespersen's explanation In short, I will show the superiority of the fanner over the latter on the basis of the theory of markedness, naturalness, and functionalism