Lagerberg, Robert John; (1992) The Relationship between Stress and Affixation in Russian. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

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The thesis sets out to establish the manner in which stress and affixation in Russian relate to each other (Chapter 1). This study is therefore not concerned with inflectional stress, but rather concentrates on the effect of affixation on stress , i.e. the stress of derived words in Russian. After surveying the history of research into this area of stress (Chapters 2 and 3), the thesis concentrates on the work of P. Garde and A. A. Zalizniak (Chapter 4). The thesis accepts the basic theory of Garde and Zalizniak, namely that the stress of any derived word in Russian results from the 'strongest' (from the point of view of stress) morpheme controlling the stress, but sets out to examine this theory, not merely from the synchronic evidence available in modern dictionaries, but also from previous sources. The sources chosen for this task are dictionaries of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In total eleven dictionaries are used - four from the twentieth century, four from the nineteenth, and three from the eighteenth. In addition derived words in Pushkin's poetry whose stress can be deduced from the metre are used as material. The stress of some thirty-eight nominal, verbal, adjectival, and adverbial affixes are traced historically, and laid out fully in tables (Chapter 5). A detailed analysis of this data follows (Chapter 6). The thesis concludes that the stress of derived words in Russian cannot be analysed comprehensively using only a synchronic approach. The stress of derived words In modern Russian is, in many cases, the result of an ongoing development, whereby it appears that while at an earlier stage their stress was the result of a 'struggle' between the stress properties of their various morphemes, it is now the stress property of the affix which is increasingly controlling the position of stress. Exceptions to any synchronic rule are often the result of this development not reaching all members of a given corpus of affixed words, while alternate stress can often be proof of its continued existence in modern Russian.

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