A Linguistic History of Russia to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Abstract

Part 1 Preliminaries: prehistory of Russian - East Slav in relation to common Slavonic and Old Church Slavonic early East Slav documents alphabet and orthography. Part 2: phonology. Part 3 Morphology: nominal declension the adjective the pronoun numerals the verb. Part 4 Syntax: types of sentence types of subordinate clause word order use of cases prepositions syntax of adjectives and numerals co-ordinating conjuctions aspect and tense. Part 5: vocabulary. Part 6: dialects - the base of the modern standard language. Part 7 Spoken language and written languages: the Kievan period to c1250 the period of fragmentation c1200-1400 the Muscovy period c1350-1600 the Muscovy period - the seventeenth century the eighteenth century and beyond. Appendix: illustrations of the Polnoglasie and non-Pologlasie (Church Slavonic) forms in Russian word-groups. (Part contents)