A linguistic history of Russia to the end of the eighteenth century
By: A.P. Vlasto.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Oxford; Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780198156628
Subjects: Russian language -- To 1300 -- History.; Russian language -- 1300-1700 -- History.; Russian language -- 18th century -- History.
Description: xix, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. xvi-xix.
Table of contents: title: Foreword … v; title: Contents … vii; title: Tables, Diagram, Maps … xii; title: Abbreviations … xiii; title: Select Bibliography … xvi; title: ◦; title: 1. PRELIMINARIES … 1; title: Prehistory of Russian: East Slav in Relation to Common Slavonic and Old Church Slavonic … 1; title: Early East Slav Documents … 23; title: Alphabet and Orthography … 34; title: ◦; title: 2.  PHONOLOGY … 42; title: East Slav Vowels (Early State) … 43; title: East Slav Consonants (Early State) … 44; title: Development of the Vowel System … 46; title: Further Consonant Changes Mainly Subsequent to the Loss of the Jers … 63; title: Further Adjustments in the Vowel System … 71; title: Summary of Sound Changes … 78; title: ◦; title: 3. MORPHOLOGY … 81; title: Nominal Declension … 81; title: The Adjective … 108; title: The Pronoun … 122; title: Numerals … 138; title: The Verb … 147; title: ◦; title: 4. SYNTAX … 188; title: Types of Sentence (Main Clause) … 188; title: Types of Subordinate Clause … 194; title: Reported or Indirect Speech … 203; title: Word Order … 205; title: Use of Cases … 209; title: Prepositions (Including Verbal Prefixes) (Selected) … 222; title: Syntactical Use of ‘Long’ and ‘Short’ Adjectives … 229; title: Syntax of Numerals … 232; title: Co-ordinating Conjunctions … 235; title: Aspect and Tense … 238; title: ◦; title: 5. VOCABULARY … 251; title: Iranian … 253; title: Gothic … 254; title: Other Germanic … 256; title: Turkic … 257; title: Baltic … 261; title: Finnic … 262; title: Scandinavian … 263; title: Greek … 265; title: Church Slavonic and Slavonicisms (ChSl. Loan-words in Russian) … 266; title: The Period of the Tatar Yoke … 270; title: The ‘Second South Slav Influence’ … 275; title: Baltic Trade … 276; title: Medieval Learning … 278; title: Polish … 280; title: Peter the Great … 284; title: The Early Eighteenth Century … 288; title: The Language of the Arts … 289; title: The French Language … 290; title: The Period 1730-60 … 291; title: The Later Eighteenth Century … 294; title: ◦; title: 6. DIALECTS: THE BASIS OF THE MODERN STANDARD LANGUAGE … 300; title: ◦; title: 7. SPOKEN LANGUAGE AND WRITTEN LANGUAGES … 344; title: The Kievan Period to c. 1250 … 344; title: The Period of Fragmentation c. 1200-1400 … 354; title: The Muscovy Period c. 1350-1600 … 356; title: The Muscovy Period: the Seventeenth Century … 365; title: The Eighteenth Century and Beyond … 374; title: ◦; title: Appendix. Illustrations of the polnoglásie and non-polnoglásie (Church Slavonic) forms in Russian word groups … 395; title: Register of Russian words treated in Chapter 5 … 403