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Lehrman, Edgar H. – Russian Language Journal, 1982
The use of three new handbooks to study Russian classics in advanced college Russian classes is described. The handbooks are an effort to help students with vocabulary, cultural information, and idioms found in the original texts. (MSE)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classics (Literature), College Second Language Programs, Cultural Context
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Rassudova, O. P. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1975
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)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Psycholinguistics, Russian, Second Language Learning
Bryzgunova, E. A. – Russkij Yazyk Za Rubezhom, 1973
Descriptors: Grammar, Intonation, Lexicology, Morphology (Languages)
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Cubberley, P. V. – Russian Language Journal, 1982
Discusses the evolution and use of verb prefixes in Russian. The prefixes are classified by semantic content with subclasses of variants and problem verbs also given. (EKN)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages), Russian
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Klein, Wolfgang – Language, 1995
Discusses the characterization of the meaning of the Russian perfective-imperfective opposition and concludes that these characterizations fail. The article maintains that aspects are temporal relations between the time at which some situation obtains and the time for which an assertion is made by the utterance that describes the situation. (33…
Descriptors: Russian, Semantics, Speech Communication, Tenses (Grammar)
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Pavlenko, Aneta; Driagina, Viktoria – Modern Language Journal, 2007
This study compared the uses of emotion vocabulary in narratives elicited from monolingual speakers of Russian and English and advanced American learners of Russian. Monolingual speakers differed significantly in the distribution of emotion terms across morphosyntactic categories: English speakers favored an adjectival pattern of emotion…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Russian, Native Speakers
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Apresjan, Ju. D. – Linguistics, 1974
This paper uses the Russian language to show that polysemantic words are one of the means of linguistic synonymy and can be used in synonymy and can be used in synonymous and quasisynonymous transformations of sentences. (CK)
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory, Russian
KAY, MARTIN; TAFT, TERRIL D. – 1967
DESIGNED FOR LINGUISTS AND LEXICOGRAPHERS, THE COLLECT SYSTEM CAN ANALYZE THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF RUSSIAN SENTENCES BY SEARCHING A FILE OF RUSSIAN TEXT. IN A TYPICAL SEARCH ON A GIVEN SENTENCE, GRAMMATICAL RELATIONSHIPS, INDIVIDUAL WORD SPELLINGS, AND WORD OCCURRENCES CAN BE DETERMINED. SINCE THE SYSTEM INCLUDES INTERPRETERS, THE LINGUIST CAN…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Grammar, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
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Levine, James S. – Russian Language Journal, 1986
Linguistic expressions involving body parts (and other entities) belonging to an "interested person" often have unique grammatical properties, e.g., the dative case in Russian. The notion called Inalienable Possession (IP) is used to account for such properties. Semantic and pragmatic analyses account for some of the properties of IP in Russian.…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Nouns, Phrase Structure, Pragmatics
Friederich, Wolf – Russisch, 1974
Parts 1-3 appeared in "Russisch," v7 n2-4 1973. (DD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, German, Grammar, Language Styles
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Chaput, Patricia R. – Russian Language Journal, 1982
Usage patterns of the three most common Russian equivalents of the verb "use" are outlined with three types of criteria for judging usage: definitional, contextual, and stylistic considerations. Typical usage is discussed, and the issue of questionable acceptability is touched upon. (MSE)
Descriptors: Definitions, English, Language Usage, Russian
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Pandit, Vijay – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1979
Discusses the problem, in translating scientific Russian into English, of encountering borrowed or internationally used terms whose precise meaning can only be interpreted through either the broad scientific context in which they are used, or through the immediate context or combination of words. (AM)
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Borrowing, Russian, Sciences
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Van Valin, Robert D., Jr. – Russian Language Journal, 1977
In modern Russian, the particle-connective "Ze" has two general and distinct functions: (1) intensification-emphasis and (2) conjunction-opposition. As these functions are actually performed by two different particles, this article accounts for their development and etymology. (CHK)
Descriptors: Etymology, Form Classes (Languages), Greek, Language Usage
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Lobanova, N. A. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1975
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)
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Negative Forms (Language), Russian
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Townsend, Charles E. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1975
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)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Instruction, Language Universals, Russian
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