List of known Russian Morphemes?

[Emily Tall]

I believe a predecessor of the books mentioned below is Catherine
Volkonskaya's "Russian Root List" (I may have got the title wrong) which used
to be published by Columbia University Press way back when in the 60s. Emily
Tall

Wayles Browne wrote:

> 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
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