Essay maps ablaut alternation patterns in Common Slavic, highlighting practical implications for understanding verb forms.
Summary This essay aims to map the distribution of individual ablaut grades in Common Slavic, as represented primarily by Old Church Slavonic – a language that still exhibits many basic features of Common Slavic. Rather than focusing on individual roots, the essay examines the overall patterns and transformations of Indo-European and Slavic ablaut both in derivation and inflexion. For practical reasons, the emphasis will be on the finite verb, which exhibits a high degree of ablaut alternation both in derivation and inflexion.
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Ondřej Šefčík (2026) studied this question.
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