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Cannot understand why there is a case change using платить

Firstly, it's not етога. The word you are referring to there is этого. But, no, there is not a shift to the accusative simply because there is a demonstrative. It would be этому мальчику. I think it ...
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Беглый гласный и мягкий знак

Sergey's answer is spot on. I'll just clarify why it is that only л gets the special treatment and receives a soft sign before the sibilants: In Old Russian, when the orthography rules were being ...
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Беглый гласный и мягкий знак

Yes, there is a rule. As Zaliznyak's Grammatical Dictionary itself states, the soft sign (ь) appears: in м (мо) 6* nouns: у́­лей — у́­лья, солове́й — соловья́; in м (мо) 3* nouns: зве­рёк — зве­рь­...
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