Guide to the Slavonic languages.
Publisher: Dent; Dutton
Published: 1951
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng; sla
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 797
Subjects: Slavic languages.
Description: xxvi, 797 p. 23 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 791-797.
Table of contents: title: Contents … v; title: Preface … xvii; title: List of abbreviations used … xix; title: ◦; title: INTRODUCTION; title: ◦; title: The purpose of this book … xxi; title: The plan and arrangement of this book … xxi; title: The method of using this book … xxiii; title: The distribution of the Slavonic languages … xxv; title: Characteristics of the Slavonic languages … xxvi; title: The importance of Old Slavonic … xxvi; title: ◦; title: I. OLD SLAVONIC (OLD BULGARIAN); title: ◦; title: Note on the language … 1; title: Alphabet … 2; title: Indo-European relationship … 3; title: Features characteristic of Old Slavonic … 4; title: Morphology … 6; title: ▫  Declensions (nouns, indefinite adjectives and participles, active participles, comparative adjectives, numerals, pronouns, definite adjectives, personal pronouns) … 6; title: ▫  Adverbs … 14; title: ▫  Conjunctions … 15; title: ▫  Prepositions … 15; title: ▫  Conjugation of verbs … 15; title: Texts … 22; title: ◦; title: II. RUSSIAN; title: ◦; title: Note on the language and its history … 25; title: Alphabet … 28; title: Pronunciation … 28; title: Dialects … 30; title: Vowel gradation and vowel lengthening … 35; title: Slavonic characteristics … 35; title: Features characteristic of Russian … 36; title: Morphology … 39; title: ▫  Declensions (nouns, numerals, pronouns, adjectives) … 39; title: ▫  Adjectives (comparison) … 47; title: ▫  Adverbs … 49; title: ▫  Conjunctions … 49; title: ▫  Prepositions … 50; title: ▫  Conjugation of verbs … 50; title: Texts … 64; title: ◦; title: III. UKRAINIAN; title: ◦; title: Note on the language and its history … 69; title: Alphabet … 73; title: Pronunciation … 74; title: Dialects … 78; title: Vowel gradation and vowel lengthening … 79; title: Slavonic characteristics … 80; title: Features characteristic of Ukrainian … 81; title: Features characteristic of Ukrainian and Byelorussian … 82; title: Features characteristic of Ukrainian, Great Russian, and Byelorussian … 84; title: Morphology … 84; title: ▫  Declensions (nouns, numerals, pronouns, adjectives) … 84; title: ▫  Adjectives (comparison) … 101; title: ▫  Adverbs … 103; title: ▫  Conjunctions … 104; title: ▫  Prepositions … 105; title: ▫  Conjugation of verbs … 106; title: Texts … 123; title: ◦; title: IV. BYELORUSSIAN; title: ◦; title: Note on the language and its history … 129; title: Alphabet … 132; title: Pronunciation … 133; title: Dialects … 140; title: Vowel gradation and vowel lengthening … 142; title: Slavonic characteristics … 143; title: Features characteristic of Byelorussian … 145; title: Features characteristic of Byelorussian and Great Russian … 146; title: Features characteristic of Byelorussian and Ukrainian … 147; title: Features characteristic of Byelorussian, Great Russian, and Ukrainian … 149; title: Morphology … 151; title: ▫  Declensions (nouns, numerals, pronouns, adjectives) … 151; title: ▫  Adjectives (comparison) … 166; title: ▫  Adverbs … 167; title: ▫  Conjunctions … 169; title: ▫  Prepositions … 169; title: ▫  Conjugation of verbs … 171; title: Texts … 185; title: ◦; title: V. BULGARIAN; title: ◦; title: Note on the language and its history … 193; title: Note on the latest spelling reforms … 195; title: Alphabet … 196; title: Pronunciation … 197; title: Dialects … 200; title: Vowel gradation and vowel lengthening … 202; title: Slavonic characteristics … 202; title: Features characteristic of Bulgarian … 204; title: Morphology … 207; title: ▫  Treatment of nouns … 207; title: ▫  Definite article … 211; title: ▫  Adjectives … 212; title: ▫  Numerals … 213; title: ▫  Pronouns … 216; title: ▫  Adverbs … 218; title: ▫  Conjunctions … 219; title: ▫  Prepositions … 219; title: ▫  Conjugation of verbs … 222; title: Word order with enclitics … 234; title: Texts … 237; title: ◦; title: VI. MACEDONIAN; title: ◦; title: Note on the language and its history … 243; title: Alphabet … 247; title: Pronunciation … 247; title: Dialects … 254; title: Vowel gradation and vowel lengthening … 256; title: Slavonic characteristics … 256; title: Features characteristic of Macedonian … 259; title: Features characteristic of Macedonian and Bulgarian … 260; title: Features characteristic of Macedonian and Serbocroätian … 261; title: Features characteristic of all South Slav languages … 261; title: Other features … 262; title: Morphology … 262; title: ▫  Treatment of nouns … 262; title: ▫  The articles … 267; title: ▫  Adjectives … 269; title: ▫  Adjectives (comparison) … 270; title: ▫  Numerals …  271; title: ▫  Pronouns … 273; title: ▫  Adverbs … 277; title: ▫  Conjunctions … 280; title: ▫  Prepositions … 281; title: ▫  Conjugation of verbs … 284; title: Word order with enclitics … 302; title: Texts … 303; title: ◦; title: VII. SERBOCROÄTIAN; title: ◦; title: Note on the language and its history … 313; title: Alphabets (Cyrillic and Latin) … 316; title: Pronunciation … 317; title: Accents … 317; title: Dialects … 318; title: Vowel gradation and vowel lengthening … 319; title: Slavonic characteristics … 320; title: Features characteristic of Serbocroätian … 321; title: Morphology … 324; title: ▫  Declensions (nouns, indefinite adjectives, numerals, pronouns and definite adjectives, personal pronouns) … 326; title: ▫  Adjectives (comparison) … 336; title: ▫  Adverbs … 336; title: ▫  Conjunctions … 339; title: ▫  Prepositions … 339; title: ▫  Conjugation of verbs … 340; title: Word order with enclitics … 350; title: Texts … 353; title: ◦; title: VIII. SLOVENIAN; title: ◦; title: Note on the language and its history … 363; title: Alphabet … 369; title: System of accentuation … 370; title: Pronunciation … 370; title: Accents … 375; title: Comparison of Slovenian and Serbocroätian accents … 376; title: Dialects … 378; title: Vowel gradation and vowel lengthening … 379; title: Slavonic characteristics … 379; title: Features characteristic of Slovenian … 381; title: Morphology … 384; title: ▫  Declensions (nouns, indefinite adjectives, numerals, pronouns, adjectives) … 385; title: ▫  Adjectives (comparison) … 404; title: ▫  Adverbs … 406; title: ▫  Conjunctions … 408; title: ▫  Prepositions … 410; title: ▫  Conjugation of verbs … 411; title: Word order with enclitics … 428; title: Texts … 431; title: ◦; title: IX. CZECH; title: ◦; title: Note on the language and its history … 435; title: Alphabet … 439; title: Pronunciation … 440; title: Dialects … 445; title: Vowel gradation and vowel lengthening … 449; title: Slavonic characteristics … 449; title: Features characteristic of Czech … 452; title: Features characteristic of Czech and Slovak … 453; title: Features characteristic of Czech, Slovak, and Polish … 454; title: Morphology … 456; title: ▫  Declensions (nouns, numerals, pronouns, adjectives) … 456; title: ▫  Adjectives (comparison) … 475; title: ▫  Adverbs … 478; title: ▫  Conjunctions … 482; title: ▫  Prepositions … 483; title: ▫  Conjugation of verbs … 485; title: Word order with enclitics … 505; title: Texts … 507; title: ◦; title: X. SLOVAK; title: ◦; title: Note on the language and its history … 513; title: Alphabet … 516; title: Pronunciation … 518; title: Dialects … 524; title: Vowel gradation and vowel lengthening … 526; title: Slavonic characteristics … 526; title: Features characteristic of Slovak … 529; title: Morphology … 531; title: ▫  Declensions (nouns, numerals, pronouns, adjectives) … 532; title: ▫  Adjectives (comparison) … 552; title: ▫  Adverbs … 554; title: ▫  Conjunctions … 558; title: ▫  Prepositions … 559; title: ▫  Conjugation of verbs … 561; title: Word order with enclitics … 581; title: Texts … 582; title: ◦; title: XI. POLISH; title: ◦; title: Note on the language and its history … 589; title: Alphabet … 593; title: Pronunciation … 594; title: Dialects … 601; title: Vowel gradation and vowel lengthening … 605; title: Slavonic characteristics … 606; title: Features characteristic of Polish … 609; title: Morphology … 615; title: ▫  Declensions (nouns, numerals, pronouns, adjectives) … 616; title: ▫  Adjectives (comparison) … 642; title: ▫  Adverbs … 644; title: ▫  Conjunctions … 646; title: ▫  Prepositions … 647; title: ▫  Conjugation of verbs … 648; title: Word order with enclitics … 666; title: Texts … 667; title: ◦; title: XII. LUSATIAN (OR WENDISH); title: ◦; title: Note on the language and its history … 673; title: Lusatian literature … 676; title: Upper Lusatian … 684; title: ▫  Alphabet … 684; title: ▫  Pronunciation … 686; title: ▫  Vowel gradation and vowel lengthening … 690; title: ▫  Slavonic characteristics … 691; title: ▫  Features characteristic of Upper Lusatian … 694; title: ▫  Lusatian dialects (including the phonetic features of Lower Lusatian) … 700; title: Morphology … 704; title: ▫  Declensions (nouns, numerals, pronouns, adjectives) … 704; title: ▫  Adjectives (comparison) … 732; title: ▫  Adverbs … 734; title: ▫  Conjunctions … 738; title: ▫  Prepositions … 740; title: ▫  Conjugation of verbs … 742; title: Word order with enclitics … 771; title: Lower Lusatian … 773; title: ▫  Main differences in morphology compared with Upper Lusatian … 773; title: ▫  Word order with enclitics … 779; title: Texts … 780; title: ▫  Upper Lusatian … 780; title: ▫  Lower Lusatian … 787; title: ◦; title: Bibliography … 791