Original scientific paper

Accentuation of Neuter Nouns 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 neuter declension 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 masculine/neuter locative singular -u is discussed.

Keywords

Croatian language; accentuation; accent; neuter gender; dialects

Hrčak ID:

144351

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/144351

Publication date:

30.11.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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