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Vol. VI, No. 1 THE SLAVONIC THIRD PERSON SINGULAR AND BYELORUSSIAN
HISTORICAL DIALECTOLOGY 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... |