New books: Russian Grammar

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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.
Ca. 100pp. USD 40 / EUR 34 / # 24.





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