The Syntax of Russian

Informationen zum Autor John Frederick Bailyn is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University. He is the author of numerous articles and edited volumes on formal Slavic linguistics especially in the areas of case, word order, functional categories, syntactic microvariation and binding. Klappentext An essential guide to Russian syntax, which examines major syntactic structures and grammatical puzzles of the language. Zusammenfassung Provides an essential guide to Russian syntax and examines major syntactic structures of the language. Various grammatical puzzles are analyzed! especially in the areas of case and word order. It will be of interest to researchers and students of syntactic theory! of Slavic linguistics and of language typology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Basic Configurations: 1. Verbal phrases; 2. Nominal phrases; 3. Types of clauses; Part II. Case: 4. Core cases of Russian case; 5. More cases of Russian case: predicate instrumental, quantificational genitive and others...; Part III. Word Order: 6. A descriptive overview of Russian word order; 7. Theoretical issues in Russian word order.

Product details

• Authors: John Frederick Bailyn, John F. Bailyn, John Frederick (State University of New York Bailyn, Bailyn John Frederick
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 04.11.2011
• Subject: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
• EAN: 9780521885744
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88574-4
• Dimensions (packing): 15.8 x 23.5 x 2.2 cm
• Series: Cambridge Syntax Guides; Cambridge Syntax Guides
• Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General; Russian; Grammar, syntax & morphology; Grammar, syntax and morphology