Published: 2022-12-18

Diachronical view on the word accent in Polabian noun declension

Patryk Marek Rachwał
Zeszyty Łużyckie
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.919

Abstract

The word accent origin issue in the Polabian language has been considered to be unsolvable for decades. The Polabian stress used to be thought to fall on the ultimate or penultimate syllable of a word. The author makes an attempt to derive the Polabian stress from Proto-Slavic one, assuming as few changes as possible. The article’s innovativeness is the consideration of new approaches, which include: influence of prepositions on a place of stress and taking Germanisms into consideration as well. The author succeeded to reconstruct accentuation paradigms for the most important classes of nouns with a monosyllabic stem with reasonable results.

Keywords:

Polabian language, stress, accentuation, reconstruction

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Rachwał, P. M. (2022). Diachronical view on the word accent in Polabian noun declension. Zeszyty Łużyckie, 57(1), 71–105. https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.919

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