HOW IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE THE VERB CONJUGATION, OR ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF STUDYING ORTHOEPY

UDC 81’355; 81’366.3

 

Sidorenko Aleksey Vladimirovich – PhD (Philology), Assistant Professor, the Department of Belarusian and Russian Linguistics. Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank (18, Sovetskaya str., 220030, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: alexeysidorenkoff@gmail.com

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52065/2520-6729-2024-279-14.

 

Key words: verb conjugation, orthoepic norm, pronunciation, senior norm.

For citation: Sidorenko A. V. How it is impossible to determine the verb conjugation, or About the benefits of studying orthoepy. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 4, Print- and Mediatechnologies, 2024, no. 1 (279), pp. 102–106 (In Russian). DOI: 10.52065/2520-6729-2024-279-14.

Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of pronunciation of the personal forms of the verb of the 1st and 2nd verb conjugations according to modern orthoepic norms of the Russian language. This question interests the author within the framework of this article in connection with the problem of determining the conjugation of the verb by students оf different educational institutions. The method of setting the verb in the form of the 3rd person plural in order to establish the verb conjugation without taking into account the sign of stress/unstress of verbal inflection is common, but fundamentally wrong. However, a number of verbs of the 2nd conjugation have an unstressed inflection [ut] that contradicts the orthographic -ат/-ят, either as an acceptable one (corresponding to the senior norm), or as an equal one along with the more common variant [ət] in most verbs of the 2nd conjugation, or even as the main pronunciation option. Such pronunciation not only corresponds to the current orthoepic norm, but is also systematically presented in modern speech practice. Based on these data, the author emphasizes the obvious need to rely on a complete algorithm when determining the conjugation of a verb, taking into account the sign of stressed/unstressed inflection. Perhaps a brief digression into the history of Russian pronunciation and an analysis of modern orthoepic norms will be at least heaven-useful for solving this urgent didactic task.

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