Terms "gerund" and "verbal adverb"

[Katherine Lahti]

It was the old Moscow pronunciation. Jakobson assumes
it in his article on the verb and confuses us all. I
still hear it all the time in Moscow from people from
old Muscovite families.

--- Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU> wrote:

> On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:25 PM, gladney at UIUC.EDU wrote:
> 
> > The 3rd person plural for the e/o and i
> conjugations in the  
> > conservative Russian described by Jakobson in 1948
> was distinct on  
> > the surface only under accent (unaccented, it was
> "vidjut" and  
> > "ljubjut").  Below the surface, they differ
> because the the ending  
> > (/nt/) has a different effect on thematic o than
> on thematic i.
> >
> >
> 
> It may have been in the old Moscow pronunciation.
> The last person I  
> met who spoke this way was Agniya Sergeevna
> Rzhevskaya in the 70's  
> who emigrated from the Soviet Union during WWII
> which undoubtedly  
> helped her preserve the old phonetics.
> 
> 
> Alina Israeli
> LFS, American University
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
> Washington DC. 20016
> (202) 885-2387 	
> fax (202) 885-1076
> aisrael at american.edu
> 
> 
> 
> 
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