Charts of Russian Verbal Prefixes

[J.W.]

Ottawa (Canada), Wednesday 22/8/06 9h20 EDT

For a good systematised listing of verbal prefixes, I highly recommend:
Intermediate Russian Grammar by William Harrison & Stephen le Fleming.
I reviewed it a few years ago in Canadian Slavonic Papers: 44:3-4
(September-December 2002), pp. 311-14.

Here are a couple of pertinent excerpts from my review:

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[The book features] an extensive listing (in Ch. 11, pp. 107-113) of
prefixed verbs of motion in imperfective/perfective pairs; the syntactic
information added in this case (in contrast to several other parts of
the book, where it is missing) -- in a list of sample verb-noun
collocations -- is particularly useful; also interesting is a schematic
diagram (p. 112) where the reader is asked to supply the appropriate
prefix for each verb of motion suggested...

[Also:] an excellent outline of 24 verb prefixes taking up most of
Chapter 17 (pp. 157-174), with examples of attachment to various verbs
with examples of collocations, showing both imperfective and perfective
infinitives; this is supplemented by passages from literature (but none,
unfortunately, from the current or recent press), to be translated into
English, replete with a multitude of italicised verbal prefixes, as well
as sentences to be translated into Russian using prefixed verbs...

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(Mr) John Woodsworth
Certified Translator (Russian-English)
Website: http://www.kanadacha.ca

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