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Three closely related studies show how three Common Slavic suffixes were changed in an early wave of glide loss and vowel contraction that occurred between the Late Common Slavic quantity-to-quality vowel shift and the earliest texts. The studies examine the Present suffix, Common Slavic-eje-, of iterative, causative, and denominative i-verbs; the Imperfect suffix, Common Slavic-ējā-,-ājā-; and the suffix of lexicalized relative adjectives-ej-(ā). Each study presupposes a detailed understanding of vowel contraction and due attention to the functional relations between the given elements and similar or contrasting stem-forming suffixes. © 2014 The Association of Scandinavian Slavists and Baltologists.