Re: [tied] Re: Slavic peoples and places

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 7610
Date: 2001-06-13

So have I. But what could it be? And if the masculine and neuter Gen.sg. forms were influenced by the possessive adjective, why is there no (however occasional) trace of such influence in feminines (say, *odnovoj for <odnoj> on the analogy of <odno[v]o>) or in other case forms? The phenomenon is not very old (attested since the 15th c., I think). Ukrainian, Belarusian as well as some Russian dialects retain a regular reflex of *-g- here. Intervocalic -g- and -v- were probably confusible to some extent when the former was pronounced as a voiced fricative, but it's strange that the confusion should have affected only this single grammatical morpheme.
 
Piotr
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Slavic peoples and places

... I've wondered for some time, though, whether the surprising phonetics of Russian pronominal/adjectival gen.sg. -ogo (-jego) (with <g> prounced /v/) may have something to do with the possessive adjectives in -ov (n. -ovo).