Abstract
This article presents a corpus-based study of suffix shift, the diachronic process that creates vacillation between inflected forms of a number of Russian verbs (e.g. каплют and капают of капать ‘drip’). It is demonstrated that four factors have a statistically significant impact: root-final place of articulation, root-final manner of articulation, consonant alternation and perfectivizing prefixes. The paper furthermore discusses the question as to whether or not suffix shift can be regarded as a unified process, whereby marked elements are more prone to undergo change than are unmarked elements. Three of the factors under scrutiny display clear relationships to markedness, while for the fourth factor (manner of articulation) the relationship is less straightforward.
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