comp gram rus eng

[Gary Cox]

Can anyone help me locate a comparative grammar of Russian and English,
suitable for native speakers of Russian whose English is good enough that
they can study in an American university.  I am developing a course aimed
at such students.  This is not an advanced ESL course; it aims to be a
real linguistics course, aimed at the one dependable niche in our market.
But as a Dostoevsky specialist, I am challenged in putting the syllabus
together. At the moment I am looking at some classics in Russian and
English by Jakobson, Halle, and Chomsky, some of the exercises in
Pulkina, and at some Soviet books from the
70s-80s (by Arakin, Seliverstova, Cherniakhovskaia and Sheviakova), which call
themselves "posobiia" but are in fact rather technical (only one of them
has exercises, and it is for English-Russian translation without a key).
Another title by Kossman is less daunting, but still has no exercises. Is
there anything (in print or out) on functional Russian equivalents of
definite and indefinite articles in English, or on functional English
equivalents of Russian aspect.  With exercises, in either instance.  Help!

I'm not subscribed to SEELANGS, so please reply directly to me at
gcox at sun.cis.smu.edu     Thanks!

Gary Cox