Wackernagel’s Law

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Wackernagel's Law , also Wackernagel law or bravely brand's law called, is a generalization about the position of enclitics and other small weak emphasized post positive words in the sentence . Mostly known as the law on the "second position" of enclitics in Indo-European languages , this law has different formulations depending on the researcher and the language for which the validity of this law is determined. In a general form, the law requires that enclitics and possibly other small, weakly stressed post-positive words appear within (at the end) of the first phonological word of the sentence. The general Indo-European character of this law was proven by the Swiss linguist Jacob Wackernagel . The validity of the law can be observed in many Indo-European language branches. Wackernagel relied on material from ancient Greek, Latin, ancient Indian, ancient Iranian, Germanic and Celtic.

Modern research understands Wackernagel's law as the sum of word order parameters that describe the position of enclitics and possibly other similar prosodically weak post- positive words in the sentence in the respective language .

This phenomenon can still be observed in some modern Indo-European languages, e.g. B. in numerous Slavic languages.

Individual evidence

1. ^ J. Wackernagel: About a law of the Indo-European word order. In: Indo-European Research . tape 1 , no. 1 , 2010, ISSN  0019-7262 , p. 333-436 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110242430.333 .
2. ↑ Marina Veksina: Studies on Wackernagel's law in archaic Greek . Berlin 2015, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 188-fudissthesis000000098451-3 (Free University of Berlin).