Stress question

[Michael Flier]

Just to complicate matters, there is an apparent tendency to move the
stress in mikrovolnovyj towards the end of the word.  In fact, the
orthoepically correct stress is on -vOl-: mikrovOlnovyj. This is the only
form listed in orthographic and orthoepic dictionaries in the 1960s and
remains the sole form in some even into the 1990s. Zaliznjak's
_Grammaticheskij slovar'_ (1977) has it as well.

The new _Orfoepicheskij slovar' russkogo jazyka_ (1997) has mikrovOlnovyj
as the preferred form, but lists mikrovolnOvyj as permissible. _Tolkovyj
slovar' russkogo jazyka kontsa XX v. Jazykovye izmenenija_ (1998) is not a
prescriptive source but rather a reference intended to document changes in
progress. Thus, it says nothing about the "correct" form mikrovOlnovyj,
but lists the alternate mikrovolnOvyj and mikrovolnovOj as forms
encountered in speech, noting that they are listed for the first time
(as opposed to other alternates in the dictionary that have made their way
into dictionaries during the last decade).

The nominal head volnA has desinential stress except for nom.-acc.pl. with
initial stress: vOlny, but voln-0' (stressed zero = 0'), volnAm, volnAmi,
volnAkh.  There is a tendency to distinguish singular (desinential) and
plural (initial) stress that is considered permissible in the current
manuals:  vOlny, vOln-0 (unstressed zero = 0), vOlnam, vOlnami, vOlnakh).
The derived adjective has only desinential stress: volnovOj.


Michael Flier





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                        PROF. MICHAEL S. FLIER
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Rachel Slayman wrote:

>         Just to complicate things...  I have only heard mikrovolNOVaia
> pech'/mikrovolNOVka.
>         The "Tolkovyi slovar' russkogo iazyka kontsa XX vv."
> (Rossiiskaia akademiia nauk, Institut lingvisticheskikh issledovanij,
> 1998) lists two (synonymous) adjectives  "mikrovolNOVyi" and
> "mikrovolnoVOI", so I suppose it's take your pick. As a footnote, the
> first example of usage for this entry is "mikrovolnovaia pech'" (with no
> stress indicated).
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