An historical linguistic view of the behavior of the Russian reflexive particle "sja" with verbs in literary usage during the 16th-19th centuries. Texts from Russian "Povesti" provide examples from which changes in usage, orthography, and pronunciation are noted. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

Description of an approach to teaching a third-year Russian conversation-composition course designed for college and university students from less urbanized and less cosmopolitan areas. (DH)

Nearly all Russian verbs with shifting past tense stress without "-sja" will develop a pattern of stress with "-sja" that has either fixed end stress in all four past tense forms or has shifting stress. (Author/LMO)

Discusses the teaching strategies used in the University of Colorado Russian Project in which Russian is taught using "Pravda" or other Russian newspapers from the very first day of class. Argues that this approach must emphasize syntax (functional grammar) as opposed to case or formal grammar. (SED)

Describes activities, instruction, and housing for a Russian language study program in Moscow. Activities include language classes, lectures, and day trips. (BK)

A special issue devoted to A.S. Puskin, this volume opens with an essay on Puskin's treatment of the theme "Freedom and Law" and proceeds with essays on some of his individual works. These are followed by a bibliography section, an English translation of his "Poltava", and a book review section. (MES)

Examples illustrate that there are possible independent meanings of the imperfective, possessing stronger modality than the perfective in the Russian verb system. This is examined in past tense, infinitive, and imperative structures. (PMJ)

Paper presented at a conference between American IREX exchange teachers and Soviet faculty, Moscow University, Moscow, U.S.S.R., August 11, 1972. (HK)

Paper presented at a conference between American IREX exchange teachers and Soviet faculty, Moscow University, Moscow, U.S.S.R., August 11, 1972. (HK)

A list is given of all initial consonant clusters a student could encounter in undergraduate study, and the list is then broken down into: (1) those also found in English; (2) those in which some transfer from English is possible; and (3) those outside the average English speaker's knowledge. (AM)

A new morphological categorization of cardinal numbers in Russian is presented, based solely on synchronic morphological features. (RM)

Discusses the teaching of Russian aspect in terms of the use of the perfective and the social ramifications and perceptions conveyed by its use. The student must be made aware of the importance of implications of statements in Russian. (CHK)

Reports on an experiment conducted to determine that recognizability of loanwords in Russian by English-speaking college students and whether there is any correlation between recognition skill and the students' level of language study. Concludes that loanwards are not readily recognizable at any level and that the overall skill in recognition does…