Comrie's and Stone's The Russian Language since the Revolution (OUP 1978) provided a comprehensive account of the way Russian changed in the period between 1917 and the 1970s. In this new volume the authors, joined by Maria Polinsky, extend the time frame back to 1900 and forward to glasnost in the mid 1980s. They first consider changes in the pronunciation, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of the language and then examine the effects of social change on the language in chapters on the changing status of women, modes of address and speech etiquette, and orthography. They show that changes...
Comrie's and Stone's The Russian Language since the Revolution (OUP 1978) provided a comprehensive account of the way Russian changed in the period be...
This collection of articles is based on presentations given at the conference "Slavic Languages in Migration." As global boundaries become more permeable due to the internet and the ease of language transmission, cultural traditions of home countries and countries of migration are likely to intertwine and enrich each other. But, this is not something that can happen overnight. Language is a vehicle for cultural and literary efforts, and almost all the papers in the book emphasize the rich culture sustained by Slavic languages. (Series: Slavic Language History / Slavische Sprachgeschichte -...
This collection of articles is based on presentations given at the conference "Slavic Languages in Migration." As global boundaries become more permea...
Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of a transitive verb are expressed the same way, and differently from the object of a transitive. In ergative languages, the subject of an intransitive and the object of a transitive appear in the same form, the absolutive, and the transitive subject has a special, ergative, form. Ergative languages often follow very different patterns, thus evading a uniform description and analysis. A simple explanation for that has to do with the...
Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and ...
Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of a transitive verb are expressed the same way, and differently from the object of a transitive. In ergative languages, the subject of an intransitive and the object of a transitive appear in the same form, the absolutive, and the transitive subject has a special, ergative, form. Ergative languages often follow very different patterns, thus evading a uniform description and analysis. A simple explanation for that has to do with the...
Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and ...
