The Journal of Byelorussian Studies

Vol. VI, No. 1

THE SLAVONIC THIRD PERSON SINGULAR AND BYELORUSSIAN HISTORICAL DIALECTOLOGY
 by R. Miller 

One of the most hotly debated topics in all of Slavonic linguistics is the history of the third-person present-tense ending of first and second-conjugation verbs. The variety of forms found in modern dialects, the enigmatic evidence of the old manuscripts, and the contradictory data... makes for a riddle that may never be solved...
 
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