For the purpose of supplying information on actual contemporary Russian usage, this article excerpts sections on noun usage and variations of the genitive ending in the masculine singular from "Stilistik der russischen Sprache" (Russian Language Style) by D. Rosental and M. Telenkowa. (Text is in German.) (FB)

Discusses two recent Russian books designed to aid students in understanding Russian word compounding. The bulk of the article consists of examples from these books. (Text is in German and Russian.) (FB)

Discusses the importance of an understanding of word compounding for the student of Russian and presents excerpts from a new Russian book which is considered especially helpful for students having difficulties in this area of Russian grammar. (Text is in German and Russian.) (FB)

Paper to be presented to the Seventh International Congress of Slavists, Warsaw, Poland, in August 1973. (DS)

A unified, coherent pedagogical treatment of stress in all inflected words in Russian is elaborated here, using three notational symbols: the acute, the crossed acute and the wedge. (CHK)

First part of an article comparing Polish, Czech, German, and Russian pronoun and noun declinations. (DS)

This paper summarizes two Russian textbooks' presentations of stress patterns of the Russian noun and offers an alternative that aims to be simpler and pedagogically more attractive. The proposed system presents stress information by means of a base form, written by means of symbols appearing over the appropriate syllable. (CHK)

It is asserted that noun errors made by students of Russian show that they have not grasped the syntactic functions of the declensional desinences. A number of teaching techniques are outlined which attempt to follow the subconscious processes that speakers of Russian go through in selecting declensional desinences. (RM)

As an aid to students of Russian, two general rules concerning numerals are suggested: rule of the genitive case and rule of the case of "enumerated object." These rules, together with five secondary rules and corresponding declension forms, define the numeral system. (Text is in Russian.) (SK)

Conclusion of a two-part series; part I appeared in n3 1972. Sample phrases in Polish, Czech, Russian, and German are used to demonstrate declination of cases and similarity of pronouns. (DS)

This article, written in Russian, propounds the application of the contrastive method in teaching the morphology of Russian to English-speaking students. The presentation is based on categorization by parts of speech. Included here is a comparative analysis of nouns (gender, number, case, expression of definite and indefinite articles),…