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Contemporary linguistics, Vol. 59-60 No. 1-2, 2005.

Original scientific paper

Collectives in -ьje in Slavic

Ranko Matasović

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Abstract

This paper refutes the received opinion that the Slavic collective suffix -ьje should be derived
from a putative PIE suffix *-iyo-. It is argued that the suffix -ьje is a regular development
of the PIE collective formant *-ey- / -i-, discovered by N. Oettinger (1995, 1999). Besides
Greek and Hittite, this suffix was preserved in Slavic in its original function; moreover,
Proto-Slavic appears to be the only Indo-European language where the suffix remained
at least partially productive.

Keywords

collectives; slavic languages; Proto-slavic language; suffix; archaisms

Hrčak ID:

15873

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/15873

Publication date:

1.11.2005.

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