How Russian came to be the way it is
Subtitle: a student's guide to the history of the Russian language
By: Tore Nesset
Publisher: Slavica Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bloomington, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780893574437
Subjects: Russian language; History; Proto-Slavic language
Other titles: Project Muse UPCC books.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-347) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : today's exceptions; title: yesterday's rules; title: The scene : from prehistory to Peter I "The Great"; title: The texts : writing and literature in Kievan Rus' and Muscovy; title: The toolbox : linguistic tools for analyzing the history of Russian; title: Morphology : nouns; title: Morphology : pronouns; title: Morphology : adjectives; title: Morphology : numbers and numerals; title: Morphology : verbs; title: Syntax; title: Phonology : pre-Slavic and common Slavic vowels and diphthongs; title: Phonology : pre-Slavic and common Slavic consonants; title: Phonology : from old Rusian to modern Russian; title: Phonology : stress and vowel reduction; title: A visit from Novgorod : the language of the birch bark letters; title: Epilogue : reflections on a triangle.