On Derksen’s law and related issues

Abstract

Dominant suffixes in Baltic and Slavic originated from retractions of the stress or later extensions and some of them arose in the Balto-Slavic period already. The retraction of the stress in Lith. dùkterį may or may not have been a phonetic development.

Keywords

• Derksen's law
• Balto-Slavic
• historical acentology
• accentuation
• dominant suffixes