Abstract
The existence of reduplication for forming the past of seventh-class strong verbs in Gothic as opposed to ablaut for the same class in the NW Gmc, languages has long posed a problem for the reconstruction of Germanic. Here we demonstrate that the stress in Gothic fell on the root of such verbs, not on the prefix as is generally supposed. Positing this as the Gmc. situation, we attempt to offer a plausible account of how the reduplicated forms of Gothic (and Proto-Germanic) could through reasonable and attested types of change eventually turn into the ablauting forms of NW Germanic.
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