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xix, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

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English
Pages
408

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A linguistic history of Russia to the end of the eighteenth century
1986, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Foreword … v
Contents … vii
Tables, Diagram, Maps … xii
Abbreviations … xiii
Select Bibliography … xvi
1. PRELIMINARIES … 1
Prehistory of Russian: East Slav in Relation to Common Slavonic and Old Church Slavonic … 1
Early East Slav Documents … 23
Alphabet and Orthography … 34
2. PHONOLOGY … 42
East Slav Vowels (Early State) … 43
East Slav Consonants (Early State) … 44
Development of the Vowel System … 46
Further Consonant Changes Mainly Subsequent to the Loss of the Jers … 63
Further Adjustments in the Vowel System … 71
Summary of Sound Changes … 78
3. MORPHOLOGY … 81
Nominal Declension … 81
The Adjective … 108
The Pronoun … 122
Numerals … 138
The Verb … 147
4. SYNTAX … 188
Types of Sentence (Main Clause) … 188
Types of Subordinate Clause … 194
Reported or Indirect Speech … 203
Word Order … 205
Use of Cases … 209
Prepositions (Including Verbal Prefixes) (Selected) … 222
Syntactical Use of ‘Long’ and ‘Short’ Adjectives … 229
Syntax of Numerals … 232
Co-ordinating Conjunctions … 235
Aspect and Tense … 238
5. VOCABULARY … 251
Iranian … 253
Gothic … 254
Other Germanic … 256
Turkic … 257
Baltic … 261
Finnic … 262
Scandinavian … 263
Greek … 265
Church Slavonic and Slavonicisms (ChSl. Loan-words in Russian) … 266
The Period of the Tatar Yoke … 270
The ‘Second South Slav Influence’ … 275
Baltic Trade … 276
Medieval Learning … 278
Polish … 280
Peter the Great … 284
The Early Eighteenth Century … 288
The Language of the Arts … 289
The French Language … 290
The Period 1730-60 … 291
The Later Eighteenth Century … 294
6. DIALECTS: THE BASIS OF THE MODERN STANDARD LANGUAGE … 300
7. SPOKEN LANGUAGE AND WRITTEN LANGUAGES … 344
The Kievan Period to c. 1250 … 344
The Period of Fragmentation c. 1200-1400 … 354
The Muscovy Period c. 1350-1600 … 356
The Muscovy Period: the Seventeenth Century … 365
The Eighteenth Century and Beyond … 374
Appendix. Illustrations of the polnoglásie and non-polnoglásie (Church Slavonic) forms in Russian word groups … 395
Register of Russian words treated in Chapter 5 … 403

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. xvi-xix.

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Oxford, Oxford, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
491.75
Library of Congress
PG2075 .V55 1986, PG2101, PG2101 .V55 1986

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xix, 408 p. :
Number of pages
408
Dimensions
23 cm

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Open Library
OL2862613M
ISBN 10
019815660X, 0198156626
ISBN 13
9780198156628
LCCN
84025497, gb85013486
OCLC/WorldCat
11469008, 17916982, 59180852, 185527954, 185065979, 230833074, 12518134
Library Thing
1867353
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