Accentual paradigms of nominal i-stems in Croatian

Abstract

The paper provides an overview of the accentual paradigms of nominal i-stems in Standard Croatian and Štokavian dialects and discusses the innovations that occurred in various Štokavian dialects. Mostly by presenting new dialectological material, various systematic and non-systematic changes in the accentuation of i-stems in Štokavian dialects are discussed. The changes discussed in the article include: shifts of the accentual paradigm (nїt, nїti → nît, nîti), secondary changes of the accent in a. p. A (smŕtī instead of smřtī), generalization of length (bôl, bôli instead of bôl, böli), analogical introduction of length (mâst, mästi instead of mâst, mâsti), generalization of the place of the accent (u mlädosti, mlädostı, mlädostima instead of u mladòsti, mladòstı, mladòstima) etc. Various specific words are discussed and some words and forms are explained historically.