concise russian grammar

[Loren A. Billings]

From LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-2409. Fri Sep 28 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875:


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> Date:  Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:41:57 +0200
> From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de
> Subject:  Slavic Linguistics: Russian by E. Andrews
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> Russian
> 
> EDNA ANDREWS
> Duke University
> 
> The present volume is a unique representation of Russian grammar that
> includes a fundamental description and analysis of the cornerstones of
> Russian grammatical categories, while providing presentations of
> lexical meaning, word formation and the interaction of grammatical and
> lexical meaning in the nominal, adjectival and verbal systems of the
> Russian language. The language of the metalinguistic texts will be in
> English coupled by extensive examles from CRD that are sufficiently
> grounded in meaningful contexts informed by pertinent cultural
> information.
> 
> Although this work is devoted primarily to contemporary standard
> Russian (CSR), we will also include remarks and commentary that
> include information about the historical development of the Russian
> literary language, as well as relevant data in the area of language
> innovation in a variety of registers, including colloquial,
> specialized/professional, and substandard language.
> 
> The following prelimary table of contents will demonstrate the logical
> development and reasoning upon which Russian has been conceived:
> 
> 1. The Russian Case System.
> a. Historical underpinnings of the case system of CSR.
> b. Case system of CSR i.declensions, ii. agreement iii. declensional shifts,
>    iv. gender shifts, v. desinences, vi. significance of syncretisms.
> 
> 2. The Russian Verb System.
> a. Categories of tense, mood and aspect,
> b. Conjugation and the one-stem,
> c. Participle/verbal adverb foramtion and aspect relations,
> d. Verbal government and variation.
> 
> 3. Deictic word forms in CSR.
> 
> 4. Distribution of the categories of person, number and gender:
>    significance and hierarchy.
> 
> 5. Nondeclining word forms,
> a. prepositions,
> b.  enclitics/particles,
> c. substantives,
> d. question of native Slavic roots and their relationship to foreign
>    borrowings,i. ancient borrowings, ii. recent borrowings.
> 
> 6. Word formation,
> a. substantival,
> b. adjectival,
> c. verbal,
> d.  deverbal.
> 
> 7. Semantics of nonroot morphemes,
> a. purely lexical morphemes, i.  suffixes, ii. prefixes,
> b. morphemes as grammatical and lexical.
> 
> 8. Syntactic relations and the meaningfulness of word order.
> 
> ISBN 3 89586 159 6.
> Languages of the World/Materials 145.
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