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Peer reviewedBirkenmaier, Willy – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1977
Two consecutive sentences in Russian with the same verbal predicate often show an aspectual shift. The thematic role of the verb is underlined by lexical items that signal the communicative structure of the sentence. Interdependence between theme-rheme articulation is more important than the relationship between aspect and modality. (Text is in…
Descriptors: Russian, Semantics, Sentence Structure, Structural Linguistics
Birkenmaier, Willy – Praxis des Neusprachlichen Unterrichts, 1977
Discusses, using examples, problems raised by differences in meaning between "equivalent" Russian and German words. Calls for clear definitions of Russian basic vocabulary words. (Text is in German and Russian.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, German, Language Instruction, Lexicology
