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Die Entwicklung der schwachen Verben ist eine Entwicklung zur Bildung durchschaubarer Tempus- und Modusformen; die Durchschaubarkeit war und ist durch das Verfahren der Agglutination gewährleistet. Im Deutschen geht also der Weg von der Flexion zur Agglutination, wobei lautliche Wandelvorgänge immer wieder zu Mischformen und Synkretismen führen.
The Germanic weak preterit
(2007)
The main difficulty with the Germanic weak preterit is that one cannot endeavor an explanation of its origin without taking into account almost every aspect of the historical phonology and morphology of the Germanic languages. In the following I intend to show how a number of problems receive a natural explanation in a unified treatment on the basis of earlier studies. The theory presented here is not revolutionary, but aims at integrating earlier findings into a coherent whole. There is no reason to give a detailed account of the scholarly literature, which is easily accessible (cf. Tops 1974, Bammesberger 1986).