Original scientific paper

Accentuation of ā-stems in Croatian – Historical Development

Mate Kapović orcid.org/0000-0001-7938-4323 ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The paper thoroughly deals with the historical development of the accentual paradigms of the ā-stems (i.e. declension type žena, žene) in Croatian starting with Proto-Slavic and ending with modern Štokavian, Čakavian and Kajkavian dialects. The development is explained for each accentual paradigm (a, b and c) respectively. Apart from the description of the development of the accentual paradigms, a list of the basic inherited words with their individual accentual paradigms is provided. Additionally, the accentuation of the old y-stems is discussed.

Keywords

Croatian language; accentuation; accent; feminine gender; ā-stems; dialects

Hrčak ID:

144354

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/144354

Publication date:

30.11.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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