Re: Stress shift
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 3, 2003, 20:26 |
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--- JS Bangs skrzypszy:
> Other languages are known to have similar processes. Polish switched from
> the arbitrariliy-stressed Old Church Slavic to its penult stress, and it
> did it very quickly: 3 or 4 centuries max, I believe.
Basically, that is correct. These things went extremely fast in Polish. I even
vaguely remember to have read somewhere that Polish also had a period of
initial stress, like Czech does. Could somebody confirm/dement that?
But as Pavel wrote, Old Church Slavic is not the same as Proto-Slavic, and
Polish is not a descendant of Old Church Slavic.
> [...] And Jesus said, "What?"
Great sig!
Jan
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