List of known Russian Morphemes?

[Udut, Kenneth]

You've reminded me that I should update my root list book -
I have a very nice, but old one from 1959 (with words that everybody
tells me are obsolete, although the roots are likely still valid :) )

I'm still learning Russian, but since I'm used to processing large
amounts of raw data, categorizing, graphing and charting and putting
together reports (it's the kind of stuff I do, and actually enjoy :) ),
long lists of similar data (such as lists of prefixes, then lists
of affixes, etc) should be interesting to process, change the presentation
of it (perhaps in flow-chart format - something I've been doing on and
off with those little declension charts in the back of Russian textbooks),
color coding, font coding, etc...  all for my own usage, of course -
sometimes
I'll see a word 100 or so times in a text, and suddenly, the meaning locks
into place.

Thanks for the tips on the books!  I will login to slavica.com
when I get home tonight and check them out!

[and here I was thinking there were a few hundred morphemes <grin> )

It is interesting how it's easier (for me, at least) to identify
a word by reading it aloud in my head (saying it aloud takes too long),
quickly noting if there are any familiar prefix or affix or at the very
least, the 'main' word, scanning to the left and right to see if
there is a matching adjective or noun, preposition or preposition
hiding there to give me a little more of a clue to context...  this is
so much easier and faster (takes 1/2 a second really, although my
'internal database' of prefixes/affixes/etc to scan for is very small),
than trying to piece a word together from scratch.

Perhaps Russian Word Formation will clue me in on these things!

Thanks again!

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-- Kenneth.Udut at SPCORP.COM
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|-----Original Message-----
|From: Wayles Browne [mailto:ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU]
|Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 3:04 PM
|To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
|Subject: Re: List of known Russian Morphemes?
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|
|K.Udut:
|>If not, does, perhaps, Slavica or another company
|>publish a list of Russian morphemes?
|>
|>[there's about 300-400 morphemes in Russian, no?]
|
|A lot more than that! Slavica has three good books: Gribble, A Russian
|Root List (just the roots exceed 2000). Then you need to know about
|prefixes that you put on before roots, suffixes that you put
|after roots,
|and endings that you put on after the suffixes. There is
|something about
|prefixes and suffixes in Gribble; more in Cubberley, Handbook
|of Russian
|Affixes, and in Townsend, Russian Word Formation.
|When you add them all up, it's quite a large number of morphemes. But
|still it's worthwhile knowing about them, because each one shows up
|over and over again in the formation of words.
|
|
|>
|
|Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
|Department of Linguistics
|Morrill Hall 321, Cornell University
|Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
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