List of known Russian Morphemes?

[Andrew Jameson]

I would offer a word of caution on the Volkonsky and
Poltoratsky book (Handbook of Russian Roots, Columbia UP
69, maybe later edns.). Much work undoubtedly went into it
and the authors are to be praised for this, but the book lacks
important information on the conditioned alternants of roots
and cannot be said to give the whole picture.
There is also a book still available as a reprint by George Z
Patrick (Roots of the Russian Language), which dates back a
long way and which I would also advise against because of the
inaccuracies it contains. Unbegaun describes it as "riddled with
elementary mistakes".
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

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From: Emily Tall <mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: List of known Russian Morphemes?
Date: 08 January 2000 13:56

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
> Department of Linguistics
> Morrill Hall 321, Cornell University
> Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
>
> tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
> fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
> e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu
>
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