REMARKS ON VARIATION IN CLASSICAL ÖAKAVIAN

Within Classical Oakavian a considerable amount of internal variation is found, as the following examples may illustrate: Although generally speaking Classical Oakavian has an ikavian reflex of Proto-Slavic *e, some texts have e (often alongside i) in those words that are ekavian in accordance with "Jakubinski j 's rule": vera alongside vira, nevesta alongside nevista, etcetera. The locative singular of masculine and neuter nouns ends in -i or -u, e.g. potoci , misti alongside potoku, mistu. The accusative plural of masculine nouns ends in -i or -e, e.g. gris i alongside grihe. The locative plural of i-stem nouns ends in -eh or -ih, e.g. nemoceh, rideh alongside (more frequent) nemocih, rioih. The orthotonic dative singular of the personal pronoun meaning 'I' is meni, mani or mni. The genitive/accusative singular of the personal pronoun meaning 'she1 is njeje or nje. The masculine nominative singular of the demonstrative pronouns that correspond to modern ovaj and onaj either are endingless or have the ending -i: ov/on alongside ovi/oni. In the same pronouns the initial ois sometimes omitted after prepositions ending in a vowel, e.g. na noj njivi alongside (much more often) na onoj njivi, The nominative singular of the interrogative pronoun meaning 'who' is tko or gdo. The pronoun meaning 'whose' is oigov or £iji; it can also be avoided altogether in favour of the genitive singular of tko/ gdo: koga.