In this five- to ten-hour presentation, intermediate and advanced students of Russian learn how prefixation affects all types of motion in terms of displacement, transitivity, and perfectivity. The features of the prefix are detailed. Throughout, changes in government (subject, object, and prepositional complements) are explained in relation to…

Suggestions are given for teaching Russian conventions for the general question intonation, and it is proposed that instruction is clearer if students are encouraged to make comparisons within and among English intonation patterns. (MSE)