Streszczenie
The aim of the present paper is to discuss the problem of Russian word stress
evolution within verb forms, which has been observed for the last twenty five
years. There are certain groups of verbs, in which the word stress changes its
place and this process can be caused by different tendencies (intralinguistic and
extralinguistic). The stress variants can be observed in the monosyllabic verbs
such as дать, пить, the short forms of participles or in the past tense forms. To
show the changes in accentuation, the author of the article compares two orthoepic
dictionaries, published at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning
of the 21st century.