Dictionary of Russian Personal Names - With a Revised Guide to Stress and Morphology

Klappentext This Dictionary has been compiled to meet the need for a reference work on the stress and morphology of Russian personal names. It indicates the stress of approximately 23,000 surnames and describes general rules that enable users to determine the stress of surnames not listed. It also fully describes the declension of surnames, with their stress shifts, and lists the most frequently used Russian given names and their principal diminutives. Zusammenfassung This Dictionary has been compiled to meet the need for a reference work on the stress and morphology of Russian personal names. It indicates the stress of approximately 23!000 surnames and describes general rules that enable users to determine the stress shifts! and lists the most frequently used Russian given names and their principal diminutives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Reconstruction of the original cyrillic from the English transliteration; 2. Russian surnames; 3. Russian given names; Selected bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Morton Benson, Morton (University of Pennsylvania) Benson, Benson Morton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521101615
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10161-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Russia, REFERENCE / Dictionaries, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, HISTORY / Reference, Russian, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, Dictionaries, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours, LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE STUDY / Russian