Russian Declension and Conjugation

1. Russian Declension and Conjugation Chapter 2: Noun Stress

2. What stress??? • When there is mobile stress, what kind of shift can you get?

3. What stress??? • When there is mobile stress, what kind of shift can you get? • Usually you can only get a shift from stem to ending or from ending to stem

4. Three stress patterns and something extra for feminines • What are the three patterns? • What stress phenomenon involves only feminine nouns?

5. Three stress patterns and something extra for feminines • What are the three patterns? • The three patterns are fixed, shifting, and anomalous • Anomalous always has stem stress in NApl and ending stress for oblique pl • What stress phenomenon involves only feminine nouns? • U-retraction, which involves only about 13 shifting and 18 anomalous stress nouns

6. Sex under stress… • Shifting stress • Masculine nouns only have stem-to-ending shifting stress (город) • Feminine nouns only have ending-to-stem shifting stress (жена) • Neuter nouns go both ways (место, число) • Only masculine and feminine nouns can have anomalous stress (волк, вещь)

7. Let’s do the work! • Homework – let’s do it together…