Full Description
Russian Syntax for Advanced Students is a textbook which illuminates relationships between words, phrases, clauses, and sentences.
Using this book, students will acquire conscious knowledge of how words function in various syntactical constructions as applied to discourse, such as specific verbal situations, based not only on the underlying linguistic phenomena, but also on the content of sociolinguistic situations. The book helps develop communicative skills for advanced mastery and constantly emphasizes the importance of accuracy in the use of syntactic structures.
Russian Syntax is designed primarily as a textbook for classroom use for intermediate-high and advanced-level students. The text is also suitable for independent study by graduate students in linguistics or pedagogy, as well as being a valuable reference for instructors.
Contents
About the Book and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
Syntax Defined
Part One. The Simple Sentence
Chapter 1. Simple Sentences
Chapter 2. Main Parts of a Sentence
Chapter 3. Secondary Parts of a Sentence
Chapter 4. Simple Sentences with One Main Part
Chapter 5. Coordinate Parts of Sentences
Chapter 6. Parenthetic Expressions. Detached Parts of the Sentence. Vocatives
Part Two. The Compound Sentence
Chapter 7. Sentences with Copulative Conjunctions
Chapter 8. Sentences with Disjunctive Conjunctions
Chapter 9. Sentences with Adversative Conjunctions
Part Three. The Complex Sentence
Chapter 10. Explanatory Clauses
Chapter 11. Attributive Clauses
Chapter 12. Adverbial Clauses
Part Four. Direct and Indirect Speech
Chapter 13. Direct Speech
Chapter 14. Indirect speech
Part Five. Punctuation
Chapter 15. Punctuation Marks
List of Full and Short Names
Sources
Bibliography
Index
