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How Russian Came to Be the Way It Is : A Student's Guide to the History of the Russian Language /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nesset, Tore (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Slavica Publishers, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: today's exceptions; yesterday's rules
  • The scene: from prehistory to Peter I "The Great"
  • The texts: writing and literature in Kievan Rus' and Muscovy
  • The toolbox: linguistic tools for analyzing the history of Russian
  • Morphology: nouns
  • Morphology: pronouns
  • Morphology: adjectives
  • Morphology: numbers and numerals
  • Morphology: verbs
  • Syntax
  • Phonology: pre-Slavic and common Slavic vowels and diphthongs
  • Phonology: pre-Slavic and common Slavic consonants
  • Phonology: from old Rusian to modern Russian
  • Phonology: stress and vowel reduction
  • A visit from Novgorod: the language of the birch bark
  • Letters
  • Epilogue: reflections on a triangle.