Ekhal greka cherez reku/the notion of gender

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear colleagues,

Just to add one point to the interesting discussion of the idiomatic  
expression "Ekhal greka cherez reku...". The incongruety related to  
the use of gender in this expression reminds me of Professor Ludmila  
Zubova's examples taken from Russian folk and contemporary poetry  
scrutinised in her excellent articles on the use of gender in Russian  
language and Russian poetry and in her book on Russian postmodern  
poetry. Zubova (St Petersburg State University) suggests that the use  
of gender is not that rigid in Russian language and there are  a lot  
of examples of discrepancy. Zubova's examples of playful use of gender  
taken from Russian contemporary poetry  are very similar to the  
expression "ekhal greka cherez reku". She refers to Russian folk  
poetry, too. Here is the list of her publications related to this issue:
*Зубова Л.В.Категория рода и лингвистический эксперимент в современной  
русской поэзии // Проблемы функциональной грамматики: Категории  
морфологии и синтаксиса в высказывании / Ред. А.В. Бондарко, С. А.  
Шубик. СПб., "Наука". 2000. С. 194-210.
*Категория рода в поэтическом эксперименте // Язык и речевая  
деятельность. Т. 2. СПб., 2000. С. 128-159.
* Современная русская поэзия в контексте истории языка. М., изд-во  
"Новое литературное обозрение" 2000. - 431 с.

With best wishes,
Alexandra




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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Reader in Russian Studies
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
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Edinburgh EH8 9JX
UK

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