Pronunciation of 'g' in '-ogo' and 'ego'
Richter, Laurence Raymond
richterl at INDIANA.EDU
Wed Feb 13 19:23:37 UTC 2008
An addendum.
Imagine: "Eto kon' moego dorogogo druga i pochtennogo gostja, Ivanova syna Borisa."
Laurence R. Richter
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I've never researched it (that I recall), but I've assumed for years that the pronunciation of the ending -ogo with a v is explained by the influence of the Gen. of forms in -ov derived from masculine nouns: Ivanov den', Ivanova dnja. Though no longer productive like its correspondence for feminines in -in, it used to be much more so. And of course this is the source of most Russian names from common nouns. You have guy called "pop" who has a son named Ivan, who is known as "Ivan Popov syn," and then the "syn" drops, and you've got a family name. Similarly, a guy called "pushka" has a son named Ivan, who is called "Ivan Pushkin syn," then Pushkin. The -ov -ova forms were numerous enough to influence the pronunciation of the semantically close
-ogo's.
Larry
Laurence R. Richter
431 W. Jed Street
Bloomington, IN 47403-3569
Hm 812-334-2523 Cl 812-219-5710
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Boris Unbegaun, La Langue russe au XVI siecle, Paris, 1935, p. 322 gives
this change as 15th-century and says the reason for g>v in these cases,
despite all attempts to explain it, remains obscure. He gives footnote
references to Sobolevskii and Plotnikova. No doubt there have been newer
hypotheses since then. I recall a suggestion of dialectal changes of
unstressed -ogo> -oho> -oo, with a subsequent epethetic v (as in
pauk>pavuk), but I can't remember where, and I fear the chronology and
written evidence of the intermediate forms required might exclude such
an explanation.
Will Ryan
Roebuck-Johnson, Aimee M. (JSC-AH) wrote:
> Dear List members,
> I'm trying to find a resource that gives the history of/reasong for the pronunciation of the Russian character 'g' as 'v' in genitive case endings (-ego, -ogo) and the mascule possessive pronoun 'ego'. I've found the following resource, but I'd like, if possible, to have some thing more specific about the time period and reason for the difference in the pronunciation of 'g'. Any direction would be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
> Aimee Roebuck-Johnson
>
> http://www.polyglot-center.ru/info/rus-lan.htm#top
>
> Русский язык эпохи Московской Руси (14-17 вв.) имел сложную историю. Продолжали развиваться диалектные особенности. Оформились 2 основные диалектные зоны - северновеликорусское примерно на С. от линии Псков - Тверь - Москва, южнее Н. Новгорода и южновеликорусское на Ю. от указанной линии до белорусской и украинской областей - наречия, перекрывавшиеся другими диалектными делениями. Возникли промежуточные средневеликорусские говоры, среди которых ведущую роль стал играть говор Москвы. Первоначально он был смешанным, затем сложился в стройную систему. Для него стали характерными: аканье; ярко выраженная редукция гласных неударяемых слогов; взрывной согласный "г"; окончание "-ово", "-ево" в родительном падеже единственного числа мужского и среднего рода в местоименном склонении; твёрдое окончание "-т" в глаголах 3-го лица настоящего и будущего времени; формы местоимений "меня", "тебя", "себя" и ряд других явлений.
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> Московский говор постепенно становится образцовым и ложится в основу русского национального литературного языка. В это время в живой речи происходит окончательная перестройка категорий времени (древние прошедшие времена - аорист, имперфект, перфект и плюсквамперфект полностью заменяются унифицированной формой на "-л"), утрата двойственного числа, прежнее склонение имён существительных по шести основам заменяется современными типами склонения и т.п. Язык письменности остаётся пёстрым.
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