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…