Деривација и фонетика

The paper presents a review and analysis of the fundamental sound changes in con-nexion with word formation in literary (standard) modern Serbo-Croat. These changes fall Into two basic categories: (1) constant and (2) occasional (specific). Constant sound changes occur in all parts of speech in all cases when the necessary con-ditions are given. These include the following changes: (1) consonant assimilation by voicedness; (2) consonant assimilation by place of formation; (3) consonant reduction. The most important occasional (specific) sound changes occur in connexion with simple nouns formed from verbs and in connexion with words derived by suffixes. In some simple nouns formed verbs, the vowel in the root of the verb and of the noun is not identical (brati berem — birati — izbor, etc.). Of the sound changes occurring in connexion with words derived by suffixes, the most important are those in derived nouns, adjectives and verbs. The sound changes occurring in con-nexion with each of the more important suffixes were analysed separately: noun suffixes (-ba, -ivo, -stvo, -anstvo, -urda, -e, -je, -ak, -(a)k, -ulj(a)k, -ik, -ka, -lo, -janin, -ina, -urina, -etina, -inja, -nje, -ar, -ara, -ura, -16, -(a)c, -l(a)c, -ica; -ce), adjective suffixes (-av, -ev, -ov, -ji, -ski, -an, -(a)n, -ev(a)n, -in, -fast) and verb suffixes (ale, ivaluje, a/a, ili).