Stress in modern Russian inflection : patterns and variation
This thesis examines the patterns of stress found in modern Russian inflectional paradigms (nouns, verbs and adjectives), and variation in these patterns. It also examines the 'retraction' of stress onto prepositions before certain nouns and numerals, for example ĐœĂĄ ĐŽĐ"ĐœŃ, Đ·ĂĄ ŃĐŸŃĐŸĐș, and onto the negative particles ĐœĐ" and ĐœĐž before the past forms of certain verbs, for example ĐœĂ© ĐŽĐ°Đœ, ĐœŃ Đ±ŃŃĐ"ĐŸ, and variability in these phenomena. After a detailed survey of literature in the field, a new approach to the treatment of mobile stress in Russian is proposed, called the 'distinctive approach'. This approach takes as its basis not the movement of stress between word-forms, from one morpheme, or one syllable, to another, but rather the patterns of contrasts made by stress between word-forms, and the resulting phonetic realisation of stems. This forms the basis of an original categorisation of the inflectional stress patterns found for nouns, verbs and adjectives, which are examined in detail. Areas of instability in the system are identified, as indicated by the existence of stress variants. Certain of these areas are then further investigated by means of a comparison of dictionary data from
Ukiah, Nicholas John
Slavonic languages; Grammar
Stress in modern Russian inflection : patterns and variation. This thesis examines the patterns of stress found in modern Russian inflectional paradigms (nouns, verbs and adjectives), and variation in these patterns. It also examines the 'retraction' of stress onto prepositions before certain nouns and numerals, for example ĐœĂĄ ĐŽĐ"ĐœŃ, Đ·ĂĄ ŃĐŸŃĐŸĐș, and onto the negative particles ĐœĐ" and ĐœĐž before the past forms of certain verbs, for example ĐœĂ© ĐŽĐ°Đœ, ĐœŃ Đ±ŃŃĐ"ĐŸ, and variability in these phenomena. After a detailed survey of literature in the field, a new approach to the treatment of mobile stress in Russian is proposed, called the 'distinctive approach'. This approach takes as its basis not the movement of stress between word-forms, from one morpheme, or one syllable, to another, but rather the patterns of contrasts made by stress between word-forms, and the resulting phonetic realisation of stems. This forms the basis of an original categorisation of the inflectional stress patterns found for nouns, verbs and adjectives, which are examined in detail. Areas of instability in the system are identified, as indicated by the existence of stress variants. Certain of these areas are then further investigated by means of a comparison of dictionary data from
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