The Structure and Development of RussianOriginally published in 1953, this book examines the historical growth of Russian from the 11th century to its modern form. Matthews includes an anthology of texts reflective of this evolution accompanied by an English translation on the facing page. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in linguistics or philology. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Sounds | 18 |
Conjecture and Record | 109 |
The Kijev and Tartar Periods eleventh to | 126 |
The Moscow Period fifteenth to the seventeenth | 138 |
The Eighteenth Century | 148 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectival adjective adverb antithesis aorist apophony Bulgarian Byzantine Central Russian characteristic complex conjugation consonants contrast Cyrillic Cyrillic alphabet declension difference diphthongs e.g. nom East Slavonic ecclesiastical eighteenth century elements English expression feminine form e.g. formal French fricative gender genitive German grammatical Greek hard imperfective influence instance jakan'je Karamzin Kijev later linguistic literary language Literary Russian literature Lomonosov masc masculine Modern Russian morphemes morphological Moscow Muscovy neuter nominal North noun Novgorod Old Church Slavonic Old Russian palatalised paradigm participle particles person phonetic phonological plosives plur plural predicate prepositions present tense pretonic syllable Prince pronominal pronoun Puškin Russian dialects Russian grammar Russian language semantic sentence seventeenth century Siberia sing singular Slavonic languages Smolensk sounds South Russian speech spelling spoken subdialect suffix syntactic tion tongue types Ukrainian unstressed variants variety verb verbal vocabulary West European White Russian words вы есть конь он ты это