On history of a non-phonetic change

Abstract

The article looks at the accentual evolution of second conjugation verbs, which is important for Russian accentology and essential for understanding of non-phonetic changes. Special attention is given the massive shift of verbs with the stress on the flection (ловúшь, учúшь type) to the variable stress (лόвишь, ýчишь type) in the present tense.