schastlivo

[John Schillinger]

And similarly, the stress alternation between dobrO  
pozhAlovat' (добрО пожАловать) and dObrij  
den' (дОбрый день)?

On Oct 24, 2011, at 5:17 PM, R. M. Cleminson wrote:

> This is a complicated question (as indeed one might have inferred  
> from the fact that you trouble to ask it).  In modern standard  
> Russian it seems reasonably clear that the adjective  
> счастливый is stressed on the second syllable in the long  
> form and on the first syllable in the short form/adverb (when it is  
> actually used as an adverb).  However, it was not ever thus: in  
> Pushkin we find счастливый stressed on the first syllable  
> and счастлив stressed on the second!  Both these I think are  
> now regarded as archaic, though possibly still theoretically  
> permissible.  I cannot offer any suggestions why this switchover  
> should have happened.
>
> However, it seems to be clear that when счастливо is used as  
> a greeting (or part of one) it is always stressed on the second  
> syllable.  This at least can be explained as a fossilised form that  
> has persisted in this particular context, having gone its separate  
> way from the adjective from which it was originally derived.
>
> But can anyone explain the development of the stress in that  
> adjective?
>
> ----- Pôvodná správa -----
> Od: "John Dingley" <jdingley43 at GMAIL.COM>
> Komu: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Odoslané: pondelok, 24. október 2011 17:46:25
> Predmet: [SEELANGS] schastlivo
>
> Hi!
>
> Where is schastlivo stressed in the following? Is it
> schästlivo or schastlívo?
>
> 1. Mne zdes' schastlivo.
>
> 2. Uzhe uxodish'? Schastlivo!
>
> 3. Schastlivo ostavat'sja!
>
> John Dingley
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