Full Description
Russian: A Comprehensive Grammar gives a practically complete description of the grammatical system of the contemporary Russian language, including phonetics, morphology, word formation, and syntax.
It illuminates grammatical categories by focusing on forms and semantics, using as a basis the comparative analysis of language categories in Russian and English and accompanying accessible but not simplistic explanations with authentic examples. It employs a parallel presentation of grammatical and semantic information that elucidates important points and allows the exploration of alternative linguistic approaches.
Russian: A Comprehensive Grammar serves a broad linguistic community, including students of Russian at any level, graduate students in linguistics or pedagogy, for independent study, and it can also be a valuable reference for instructors to mine for methodological material.
Contents
About the Book
Part I. Phonetics
Chapter 1. Sounds and Spelling
Part II. Morphology
Chapter 2. Nouns
Chapter 3. Pronouns
Chapter 4. Adjectives
Chapter 5. Numerals
Chapter 6. Verbs
Chapter 7. Participles
Chapter 8. Verbal adverbs
Chapter 9. Adverbs
Part III. Syntax
Chapter 10. Simple sentences (1): affirmative statements
Chapter 11. Simple sentences (2): negative statements
Chapter 12. Simple sentences (3): interrogative sentences
Chapter 13. Compound sentences
Chapter 14. Complex sentences
Chapter 15. Agreement
Chapter 16. Word order
Chapter 17. Between syntax and pragmatics
Part IV. Punctuation
Bibliography
Sources
Index
