An hypothesis is proposed to explain the differences between the Russian conjunctions "no" and "odnako." Nine short passages are discussed to illustrate their usage. (RM)

It is argued that mastery of verbal aspect in Russian calls for the development in the student of a novel pattern of linguistic perception for actions and occurrences. (Author/RM)

Personal/impersonal negative sentence pairs in Russian are discussed. It is concluded that the structural differences in personal and impersonal negative sentences correspond to a difference in meaning: the absence of the object in general versus the absence of a given, specified object. (Author/RM)

Problems encountered by Russian language students caused by noncorrespondence of meaning are described. It is argued that many of the difficulties which students encounter in learning vocabulary result from semantic shifts within Russian. (RM)

Inexact uses of adverbs by students of Russian which are believed to be caused in part by native language interference are discussed. (RM)

Problems and methods of teaching practical stylistics to students of Russian are discussed. (RM)

Article based on the author's dissertation (Georgetown University, 1970). (DS)

Rules governing formulation of the embedded tense in Russian are explained and their importance to beginning students of Russian discussed. (RM)

It is asserted that certain points in Russian grammar can be adequately explained only with reference to sentence stress. Areas which lend themselves to explanation in terms of sentence stress are suggested, and directions given for developing drills. (Author/RM)

This glossing system is designed to fill the gap between grammar studies and reading. The system reflects flexional and derivational morphology of words as well as lexical relationships of synonymy, antonymy, homonymy and structural similarity and polysemy. It is intended to help students learn and understand vocabulary for successful reading.…

This paper demonstrates the means which Russian has to render English where the use of articles if required. The author concentrates on the function of the pronoun, preposition, and adverb which modify the Russian sentence. Numerous examples of English phrases and statements are provided in the target language. (RL)

Investigates the fate of "u"-stem endings in Slavic languages. Findings indicate that the collapse of a paradigm is gradual and that the morphemes involved do not lose their grammatical meanings, although they may develop additional ones at later stages. The development of additional grammatical meanings is carried out in concert with…

Following a brief summary of Trubetzkoy's views of Russian word roots, a statistical analysis is performed on a short literary passage in seeking to examine whether all types of roots merely coexist in modern Russian or whether there is an expansion of certain types and a contraction of others. Results point out statistical and semantic…