Akcenat prisvojnih prideva na -ov (-ev), -in i reči koje se od njih izvode dodavanjem imeničkih, odnosno pridevskih sufiksa
The Accent of Possessive Adjectives Ending in -OV (-EV), -IN and of the Words Derived from them with Nominal and Adjectival Suffixes

Summary/Abstract: In the first part of this paper I pointed out the importance of the observation of Vukušić (1984) that the accent of possessive adjectives derived by suffixes -ov (-ev), -in have the same accent as the genitive singular of the basic noun. I, however, notice that this observation holds -not only for the west stokavian dialect about Which Vukušić is writing, but also for the standard Serbo-Croatian. In the second part of the paper I argue that the possessive suffixes' form a special layer of the lexicon in the sense of lexical phonology (Mohanan 1981, Kiparsky 1982), because they -block the movement of the accent towards the end of the word in further derivation of words by suffixes. This contribution, may, therefore, be an important step toward the construction of the lexical phonology of Serbo-Croatian. However, further empirical verification of the proposed thesis seems to be necessary.

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