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Vajda et al.

Russian Punctuation

Although punctuation is crucial to even basic written literacy in any European language, Russian language textbooks designed for English speakers routinely fail to provide even basic information on this important facet of written Russian. This new,...

Robert A. Maguire and Alan Timberlake (eds.)

American Contributions to the 12th International Congress of Slavists

Contents Part I: Literature CAROL J. AVINS Jewish Ritual and Soviet Context in Two Stories of Isaac Babel     11 ELLEN CHANCES Reflections of Contemporary Russian Society, Culture, and Values in Iurii Mamin's Film, Window to...

Newlin/Forrester

Toward a Classless Society

Thompson Bradley taught Russian language and literature at Swarthmore College from 1962 to 2001. He has had a tremendous and continuing influence on colleagues, friends, students, and comrades in political organizing and action. This Festschrift honors...

Mihailovich, Vasa D.

Third Supplement to A Comprehensive Bibliography of Yugoslav Literature in English

The Third Supplement to a Comprehensive Bibliography of Former Yugoslav Literature in English extends the project begun in 1976 with a preliminary volume-reprinted totally in 1984-and followed with the First Supplement in 1988 and the Second...

Birnbaum, Henrik

Sketches of Slavic Scholars

1. O.O. Potebnja's Conception of Russian Morphosyntax Viewed in its Historical Context 2. V. Jagic's Contribution to Slavic Syntax 3. A.M. Peskovskij's Vision of Russian Syntax. 4. S. Ivsic's Contribution to Slavic Comparative Linguistics 5...

Mathiassen, Terje

A Short Grammar of Latvian

This is a "twin" to the Short Grammar of Lithuanian available from Slavica. For the first time, we have modern structural reference grammars of both modern Baltic languages written according to the same scheme, so comparisons between the two languages...

Chvany, Catherine V.

Selected Essays of Catherine V. Chvany

Contains a selection of work by one of the most important Slavic linguists of the past thirty years, along with introductions to the individual sections by other eminent specialists. While the material is primarily Slavic, most of the articles treat...

Hart, David

Topics in the Structure of Russian

Most students who take Russian wonder about various aspects of its phonology and grammatical system, especially the idiosyncrasies and intricacies that differ markedly from English. Many sense that a more orderly system must underlie the complex and...

Mathiassen, Terje

A Short Grammar of Lithuanian

The first modern descriptive grammar of Lithuanian in English, this book is intended above all for university students and linguists, but is readily accessible to a broader audience if they are willing to look up a few grammatical terms in a dictionary...

Mikos, Michael J.

Polish Baroque & Enlightenment

Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature (covering the period from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries) follows Professor Mikos's well-received Polish Renaissance Literature, published by Slavica in 1995. As was the case with the...

Paperno & Iordanskaya

A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body

This remarkable book is an exhaustive combinatorial Russian-English dictionary of a small group of words that are of more than passing interest in everyday life and language. The dictionary contains 73 entries: 63 parts of the body, plus 10 words...

laura janda & charles townsend

Common and Comparative Slavic

Townsend and Janda's book provides a thorough description of the phonology and inflection of Late Common Slavic with copious background on its precursors and a detailed survey of its stages of development. The comparative approach is blended in from the...