Original scientific paper

O- as an facultative allomorph of the verbal prefix od-

Jurica Budja ; Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In a considerable number of verbs the verbal prefix od- appears as o-. The phenomenon is recorded in a wide area of all four štokavian languages, but mainly in southern Dalmatia, Crna Gora and eastern Hercegovina. The loss of /-d-/ most often occurs before fricatives. The author gives a corpus of verbs that undergo this loss and suggests a possible phonetic explanation for this phenomenon based on facultative anticipatory assimilation.

Keywords

verb formation; prefix od-; facultative anticipatory assimilation

Hrčak ID:

50694

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/50694

Publication date:

14.4.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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