New Book Announcement

[Eugene M Russakovskii]

Author:     Eugene M.Russakovskii, Associate Professor, Kharkov
            State Automobile & Highway Technical University (XADI),
            Kharkov, Ukraine.

Title:      "Encyclopedia of English Verb Forms: Rules & Exceptions"

Publishing houses:        "Karavella" (Kharkov, Ukraine);
                          "Prestige"  (Moscow, Russia)

Year of publication:      1998

Volume:     560pp.

Cover type: hard cover

ISBN's:     966-586-036-4, 588-569-009-X

Printing:   5,000 copies (printed in Yaroslavl', Russia)

Language:   Russian (verb tables are given in English)

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"Encyclopedia..." deals with all English verbs having non-standard
grammatical paradigm. The book might be considered as a [very] far
going generalization of the pages 96-120 of the well-known monograph
by R.Quirk, G.N.Leech, S.Greenbaum, and J.Svartvik "A Comprehensive
Grammar of the English Language".

As the main subject of "Encyclopedia..." is studying all English verbs
with non-standard grammatical paradigm, irregular verbs are also
included. One will find here 1209 irregular verbs, including 297 mono-
morphemic ones and 20 verbs-abbreviations. All irregular verbs are
classified into 86 schemata. Numerous comments related to verb forms
usage are given, all schemata are described in details. (Naturally,
irregular verbs can't exhaust the subject under consideration!)

As it turned out, many questions related to non-standard verb in-
flexions have been exposed by grammarians in an insufficiently severe
form, and with numerous gaps; a number of situations has not been
described or those descriptions contained different errors and
inaccuracies; the set of rules regulating pronunciation and spelling
of verb inflexions was non-complete; the sets of exceptions to the
formulated rules did not exist at all or contained only a small part
of the corresponding verbs-exceptions.

In "Encyclopedia..." we formulate an exhaustive set of rules regulating
pronunciation and spelling of verb inflexions, both for BrE and AmE,
taking into account all possible, sometimes rather curious, situations.
Every rule is supplied with the corresponding set of exceptions (if
there are any); those sets are named "CCC"'s ("Closely Complete Corpora")
in our book. Numerous errors and inaccuracies ever met in related
literature have been corrected in "Encyclopedia...".

The Author has a hope that any question related to verb inflexions and
non-standard verb forms may be answered with the help of "Encyclopedia...".
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Any interested party, whether a scholar or a library, should contact
the Author by e-mail << arus at ilt.kharkov.ua >> for further information.