Chapter I examines the neuter, which is the rarest of the three Russian genders, paradigmatically and syntagmatically. Moreover, its rate of decline is accelerating. The neuter's productive base is shown to be very narrow and highly syncretic. Historically it has followed a "bust-boom-bust" cycle which appears to be crucial to its predominant function as a stylistically and semantically specialized category....
Linguistics
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1983
Because this book contains not only the grammatical material, but also readings and a detailed glossary for them, with full cross-referencing, it makes a complete introductory course in OCS. All paradigms and reading selections (except the Freising texts) are in the Cyrillic alphabet, and the entire book makes liberal use of bold face, italics, etc. The 75-page Glossary lists every...
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1988
Contents
Ronelle Alexander
The Accentuation of Neuter Nouns in Balkan Slavic 7
Masha Belyavski-Frank
Changes in Markedness of Verbal Categories in Two South Slavic Languages 35
Henrik Birnbaum
The Genealogical and Typological Classification of Old Church Slavonic 45
Catherine V. Chvany
Distance, Deixis and Discreteness in Bulgarian and English Verb Morphology 69
Michael S. Flier
Morphophonemic Consequences of the Development of Tense Jers in...
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1986
The study of complementation and complementizers has been an area of great interest for syntactic theory in recent years. This book presents a description of complementation in Bulgarian, with particular emphasis on questions and relative clauses (the so-called WH constructions) and their interaction with the set of clause-introducing words known as complementizers. WH constructions and clauses containing complementizers have been...
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1984
Based on original research in Russian syntax, this book explores the intersection of sentence intonation, syntactic structure, and grammatical function in the case of the adverbial participle (deeprichastie) of contemporary Russian. An adverbial participle clause constituting an intonational unit separate from that of its matrix clause is detached (obosoblennyi). The core of the book documents in detail a range of...
