Two BAP violations in Russian verbal stress

Authors

  • Ora Matushansky CNRS/Université Paris-8/UPL

Keywords:

accent, lexical stress, Basic Accentuation Principle, pre-accentuation, post-accentuation, unaccentability, unstressability

Abstract

The Basic Accentuation Principle of Russian (Kiparsky & Halle 1977), associating main stress with the leftmost accent, appears to be violated with two pre-accenting morphemes: the infinitive and the passive past participle (PPP) suffixes: stress is final instead of pre-suffixal. I will first demonstrate that the PPP suffix is unaccentable, and then show that this violation is resolved if the notion of an unaccentable morpheme is also extended to roots.

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Published

2025-09-08

How to Cite

Matushansky, O. “Two BAP Violations in Russian Verbal Stress”. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, vol. 33, no. FASL issue, Sept. 2025, pp. 1-18, http://ojs.ung.si/index.php/JSL/article/view/177.

Issue

Vol. 33 No. FASL issue

Section

FASL 30 proceedings

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