On Clarifying Some Points of Slavonic Accentology: The Quantity of the Thematic Vowel in the Present Tense and Related Issues

Rise and fall of vowel length in Slavic

“…22) have adequately been refuted in the literature (cf. Vermeer 1984, Kortlandt 2011: 37-39 and 2012b.…”

Sifting the Evidence for the Reconstruction of Pannonian Slavic

“…Another is what I have argued is a retention ťeature, the roundedness oť ProtoSlavic *a, characteristic oť northem and eastem Slovene dialects and Kajkavian, which prevented mergers with strong jers characteristic oťthe western halť oťSouth Slavic (see Greenberg 1998 and 2000: 65ťftor details). StilI another is the retention oť length in mobile ("c"-stressed) present tense ťorms oť e-stem verbs, ťound in Carinthian and Prekmurje Slovene (north-west and north-east, respectively) and central Slovak (see Venneer 1984;Greenberg 2000: 93). In my view, these circumPannonian ťeatures are the aťterglow oť Pannonian Slavic.…”