A Reference Grammar of Russian - Reference Grammars Collection

Informationen zum Autor Alan Timberlake is Professor of Slavic linguistics at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures! University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of The Nominative Object in Slavic! Baltic! and West Finnic (1974). Klappentext This textbook describes and systematizes all aspects of the grammar of Russian--including patterns of orthography! sounds! inflection! syntax! tense-aspect-mood! word order! and intonation. It is especially concerned with the meaning of combinations of words (constructions) and the core concept is that of the predicate history (a record of the states of entities through time and across possibilities). Using predicate histories! the book presents an integrated account of the semantics of verbs! nouns! case! and aspect. It will appeal to students! scholars and language professionals interested in Russian. Zusammenfassung This book describes and systematizes all aspects of the grammar of Russian: the patterns of orthography! sounds! inflection! syntax! tense-aspect-mood! word order! and intonation. It also refers to literature on variation and trends in the development of Russian! and makes use of contemporary data from the internet. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Russian; 2. Sounds; 3. Inflectional morphology; 4. Arguments; 5. Predicates and arguments; 6. Mood, tense, and aspect; 7. The presentation of information; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Timberlake, Alan (University of California Timberlake, Timberlake Alan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2004
• EAN: 9780521772921
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77292-1
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 255 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Reference Grammars; Print on Demand; Reference Grammars
• Subjects: Education and learning; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Europe, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology