Re: Krivichian dialect of Proto-Slavic (long)

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> Many thanks, Sergei! An excellent introduction!

I'm always at your service in case you'd like to be provided wirth more details. Unfortunately, relevant books (actually, two of them, both by Zalizniak, who have been studying the issue for decades now) were issued in Russia in a more than limited edition of a thousand or two copies, so it may be problematic to get them in a library. Fortunately, I managed to buy one of them. :)

> As for your question, I'm only aware of West Slavic *-e^ in the Nom./Acc.pl. and Gen.sg. of "soft" *ja:-stems -- e.g. Polish Nom./Acc.pl. dusze, Old Polish Gen.sg. dusze (replaced by -y in the 17th c.). In "hard" a:-stems the ending is always -y. This is apparently the original state of affairs in North (i.e. East + West) Slavic.
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This one more time demonstrates how hard it's to classificate this dialect in cozy terms of North ( > West, East) and South Slavic.

Sergei