Naslov
North Slavic Present Participles and Case Endings of Soft Stems

Autori
Matasović, Ranko

Izvornik
Croatica et Slavica Iadertina (1845-6839) 6 (2010), 6; 3-7

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Slavic dialects; North Slavic; sound change; present participles; case endings

Sažetak
This article posits a regular sound change of final *-ı̄n(s) to *-ē (s) in the group of Slavic dialects from which East and West Slavic later developed. This change accounts for the origin of some case endings of the "soft" stems (the nominative and accusative plural and the genitive singular of jā-stems, as well as the accusative plural of jo-stems). This change never occurred in the ancestors of the South Slavic dialects, but it still preceded some Common Slavic sound changes, such as the change of Proto-Slavic *ē to *ā after *j. This accounts for the origin of the North Slavic present participles in -a (e.g. Old Russian nesa, bera) which spread analogically from the verbs in which -a developed regularly from *ā after j (e.g. Old Russian znaja).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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