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RUSSIAN STUDIES: LANGUAGE

RUSSIAN STUDIES: LANGUAGE Slavonic Languages IV. RUSSIAN STUDIES* GENERAL REFERENCE AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL WORKS POSTPONED LANGUAGE By PETER MAYO, Senior Lecturer in Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield I. GENERAL AND CoLLECTIVE VoLUMES Stefana Dimitrova, HcKJJ:IO'LteUUR, 6 pycCKOM KJ'btKe, Columbus, Ohio, Slavica, 246 pp., whilst unfortunately having an irritatingly large number of typographical errors, is comprehensive. It covers pho­ netics, the accentological system, intonational contours, non­ standard paradigms, the influence of morphological analogy, briefly what is described as 'the contradictory behaviour' of the genitive and accusative cases, suppletion, the animate category, derivation, non-standard word collocations, doublets, fluctuation in the prin­ ciples of co-ordination, various syntactic and semantic characteristics and, finally, orthography and orthoepy. The author concludes that the number of exceptions in Russian is 'too high'. She sees two opposing tendencies at work: i) the spread of certain phenomena which (almost) turns exceptions into rules and, conversely, ii) the eradication of exceptions (e.g. the disappearance of former distinc­ tions between participles and adjectives in form) - though one wonders whether 'exception' is the correct term in this case. RSl, 66.3 appears with the subtitle 'Organisation semantique de la phrase dans les langues slaves' and includes the following items of relevance to this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

RUSSIAN STUDIES: LANGUAGE

MAYO, PETER
The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies , Volume 56 (1): 8 – Mar 13, 1995
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Slavonic Languages IV. RUSSIAN STUDIES* GENERAL REFERENCE AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL WORKS POSTPONED LANGUAGE By PETER MAYO, Senior Lecturer in Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield I. GENERAL AND CoLLECTIVE VoLUMES Stefana Dimitrova, HcKJJ:IO'LteUUR, 6 pycCKOM KJ'btKe, Columbus, Ohio, Slavica, 246 pp., whilst unfortunately having an irritatingly large number of typographical errors, is comprehensive. It covers pho­ netics, the accentological system, intonational contours, non­ standard paradigms, the influence of morphological analogy, briefly what is described as 'the contradictory behaviour' of the genitive and accusative cases, suppletion, the animate category, derivation, non-standard word collocations, doublets, fluctuation in the prin­ ciples of co-ordination, various syntactic and semantic characteristics and, finally, orthography and orthoepy. The author concludes that the number of exceptions in Russian is 'too high'. She sees two opposing tendencies at work: i) the spread of certain phenomena which (almost) turns exceptions into rules and, conversely, ii) the eradication of exceptions (e.g. the disappearance of former distinc­ tions between participles and adjectives in form) - though one wonders whether 'exception' is the correct term in this case. RSl, 66.3 appears with the subtitle 'Organisation semantique de la phrase dans les langues slaves' and includes the following items of relevance to this

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