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The Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics offers a comprehensive overview of the languages of the Slavic language family and the different ways in which they are and have been studied. It provides authoritative treatment of all important aspects of the Slavic language family from its Indo-European origins to the present day, as well as consideration of interaction of Slavic with other languages.

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Ivšić’s Retraction

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Author(s): Kapović, Mate
In Slavic, there is a general tendency for newly arisen noninitial falling accents (called neo-circumflex) to retract to a preceding syllable with the neo-acute as the result on newly stressed syllables. For the most known, but also the most questionable, of such retractions see Stang’s law. The dialectal Common Slavic post-contractional retraction of the 2sg present * stǫpa̋ješь ‘you tread’ > * stǫpa̋ešь > * stǫpâšь > * stǫ̃pašь (Cr dial. stũpāš, Sk stúpaš, Po stąpasz) type (after a long pretonic syllable) is well known. In Štokavian and Čakavian, neo-circumflex ret…
Source: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online
Date: 2023-10-27