hyphenation question

[Edward M Dumanis]

I'd like to offer slight corrections:

For no. 2:

Replace "It is preferable not to" by "You never" and add "and you never
split a single letter from root keeping it with prefix"

For nos. 3, 4, 5 and 7:

Add "if only it is consistent with no. 2"

In no. 7, this correction will make your examples consistent with the
rule.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Hugh Olmsted wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Here's a kind of conservative set of partially ordered rules which   
> should mostly  work.
> 1. Any transliterated combination should be treated  as its Russian  
> counterpart.  Thus, for example,
> any multi-consonant  transliterated sequence representing a single   
> Russian letter shouldn't be broken up (e.g. shch, ts, kh, ia, iu, in  
> the simplified-LC system).
> 2. It's preferable not to leave a single letter alone at the end or  
> beginning of a line.
> 3. Otherwise, it's safe to divide between two vowels (a, e, i, o, u  
> y  -- e.g., mo-ego, razdelia-emym)
> 4. It's generally safe to divide  after a vowel followed by a single  
> consonant (including those described in no. 1,  above -- e.g.,  Po-po- 
> va, Ti-kho-mi-ro-va, ovo-shchi)
> 5. It's generally safe to break at the boundary between prefix and  
> root (raz-deliaemym,  is-pravit', is-tratit').
> 6. Otherwise, certain consonant combinations should preferably not be  
> split up (generally those allowed in syllable-initial position, and  
> frequently with a resulting whiff of morphological conditioning,   
> such that suffixes like -sk+ and -stv+ stay together): e.g.,  tv,  
> stv, tr, str, dr, zdr, dv, sk, or any consonant plus l or r or iu /  
> ia (= ju, ja).  This preference, it's true,  has been being relaxed  
> in more recent times.
> 7. Otherwise  it's okay to divide between two consonants (after a  
> soft sign, if one be present -- pol-nyi, vol'-nyi), preferable not  
> to  break before the two consonants.
> 
> All of this yields among other things the following results for the  
> list cited (slightly at variance with some of the discussion so far):
> chuv-stvi-tel'-no / Go-du-nov / po-pri-shche / Po-pri-shchin / ob- 
> shche-stvo / mno-go-chi-slen-naia.
> 
> Note that the "phonetic effect" of the weakening / disappearing -v-  
> is not traditionally taken as  relevant.  The Russian word division  
> rules, unlike their English counterparts, have traditionally been  
> taken as a graphic system only.
> 
> Hugh Olmsted
> 
> 
> On Jul 17, 2006, at 9:34 PM, Anne Lounsbery wrote:
> 
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > Can someone please tell me the rule(s) governing where to hyphenate  
> > (for
> > line breaks in a book) transliterated Russian words?  Specifically  
> > I'd like
> > to know where it's permissible (and where it's not permissible) to  
> > hyphenate
> > the following:
> >
> > chuvstvitel'no
> >
> > Godunov
> >
> > poprishche
> >
> > Poprishchin
> >
> > obshchestvo
> >
> > mnogochislennaia
> >
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > --A.L.
> >
> >
> > Anne Lounsbery
> > Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Study
> > Department of Russian and Slavic Studies
> > New York University
> > 19 University Place, 2nd floor
> > New York, NY 10003
> >
> > (212) 998-8674
> >
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