A Linguistic History of Russia to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 20, 1989
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780198156628
Table of contents: class: section
title: Foreword … v; class: section
title: Contents … vii; class: section
title: Tables, Diagram, Maps … xii; class: section
title: Abbreviations … xiii; class: section
title: Select Bibliography … xvi; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 1. PRELIMINARIES … 1; class: section
title: Prehistory of Russian: East Slav in Relation to Common Slavonic and Old Church Slavonic … 1; class: section
title: Early East Slav Documents … 23; class: section
title: Alphabet and Orthography … 34; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 2.  PHONOLOGY … 42; class: section
title: East Slav Vowels (Early State) … 43; class: section
title: East Slav Consonants (Early State) … 44; class: section
title: Development of the Vowel System … 46; class: section
title: Further Consonant Changes Mainly Subsequent to the Loss of the Jers … 63; class: section
title: Further Adjustments in the Vowel System … 71; class: section
title: Summary of Sound Changes … 78; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 3. MORPHOLOGY … 81; class: section
title: Nominal Declension … 81; class: section
title: The Adjective … 108; class: section
title: The Pronoun … 122; class: section
title: Numerals … 138; class: section
title: The Verb … 147; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 4. SYNTAX … 188; class: section
title: Types of Sentence (Main Clause) … 188; class: section
title: Types of Subordinate Clause … 194; class: section
title: Reported or Indirect Speech … 203; class: section
title: Word Order … 205; class: section
title: Use of Cases … 209; class: section
title: Prepositions (Including Verbal Prefixes) (Selected) … 222; class: section
title: Syntactical Use of ‘Long’ and ‘Short’ Adjectives … 229; class: section
title: Syntax of Numerals … 232; class: section
title: Co-ordinating Conjunctions … 235; class: section
title: Aspect and Tense … 238; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 5. VOCABULARY … 251; class: section
title: Iranian … 253; class: section
title: Gothic … 254; class: section
title: Other Germanic … 256; class: section
title: Turkic … 257; class: section
title: Baltic … 261; class: section
title: Finnic … 262; class: section
title: Scandinavian … 263; class: section
title: Greek … 265; class: section
title: Church Slavonic and Slavonicisms (ChSl. Loan-words in Russian) … 266; class: section
title: The Period of the Tatar Yoke … 270; class: section
title: The ‘Second South Slav Influence’ … 275; class: section
title: Baltic Trade … 276; class: section
title: Medieval Learning … 278; class: section
title: Polish … 280; class: section
title: Peter the Great … 284; class: section
title: The Early Eighteenth Century … 288; class: section
title: The Language of the Arts … 289; class: section
title: The French Language … 290; class: section
title: The Period 1730-60 … 291; class: section
title: The Later Eighteenth Century … 294; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 6. DIALECTS: THE BASIS OF THE MODERN STANDARD LANGUAGE … 300; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 7. SPOKEN LANGUAGE AND WRITTEN LANGUAGES … 344; class: section
title: The Kievan Period to c. 1250 … 344; class: section
title: The Period of Fragmentation c. 1200-1400 … 354; class: section
title: The Muscovy Period c. 1350-1600 … 356; class: section
title: The Muscovy Period: the Seventeenth Century … 365; class: section
title: The Eighteenth Century and Beyond … 374; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Appendix. Illustrations of the polnoglásie and non-polnoglásie (Church Slavonic) forms in Russian word groups … 395; class: section
title: Register of Russian words treated in Chapter 5 … 403