The present study examines the influence of social distance and power factors on the use of internal and external mitigating devices and strategies in the production of requests by Korean learners of Russian. The data was collected by using a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) containing twelve situations that varied in the facts of power and social…

Errors with "be", whether omission (e.g., "John happy") or overuse (i.e., "be"-insertion; e.g., "John is love Mary"), have received particular attention in L2 acquisition studies exploring L1 transfer. This study investigates such errors in the context of L3 acquisition, focusing on L1 transfer. L1-Chinese…

Research on multilingual acquisition has investigated various combinations of languages to identify the factors determining how learners express motion. Our research examines the semantics of motion expression in learners whose first language (L1) exhibits more variation than their foreign language (L2/L3). The present study compares upward motion…

This study suggests that Intermediate High and Advanced speakers produce aspectually valid constructions in Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) in large part because they are doing more than assigning aspect to lexical categories (Lexical aspect hypothesis), but because they are assigning lexicalized meaning to discrete verbs, for example…

The relationship between family language policy (FLP) and language choice, language use, proficiency in Russian and Hebrew, codeswitching (CS) and linguistic performance was studied in Russian-speaking immigrant parents and their Russian-Hebrew bilingual preschool children. By means of Glaser's Grounded Theory, the content of sociolinguistic…

This dissertation represents a study of the formation of "-sja" passives of Russian verbs of governing and wanting. I explore five imperfective verbs of governing: "zavedovat" "manage"; "komandovat" "command"; "pravit" "govern"; "rukovdit" "direct"; and "upravljat" "manage"; as well as four imperfective verbs of wanting: "iskat" "seek"; "trebovat"…

The languages of the world encode possession in a variety of ways. In Slavic languages, possession on the level of the clause, or predicative possession, is represented by two main encoding strategies. Most Slavic languages, including those in the West and South Slavic sub-groupings, use a "have" verb comparable to English have and German "haben."…

This study examines the motion lexicon in narratives elicited from Russian-English bilinguals. Lexical choices made by the participants are compared to those made by native speakers of Russian and English in narratives elicited by the same stimuli. The analysis of bilinguals' narratives shows that lexicalization of motion is not subject to L2…

Extension of an article in "Russisch," v6 n1 p1-8 1972. (DD)

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)

Discusses the grammatical form and meaning of Russian perfective verbs and contrasts them with derived imperfectives. A number of examples are provided and analyzed. (Text is in German.) (DH)

Discusses the syntactic differences in expressing wishes or desires in Italian and Russian. (CFM)

Compares the uses of the German Future I and Present tenses with the corresponding Russian tenses, which reflect the Russian verb aspect. In German the aspect plays a much smaller role. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This study of the choice of verbs of motion by native speakers of Russian focused on four factors: quantifiers, sequencing, singularization, and progressive meaning with explicit reference to emotional state. Eight native speakers of Russian were asked to rate the grammatical acceptability of certain verbs in specific texts in which repeated…

An historical linguistic view of the behavior of the Russian reflexive particle "sja" with verbs in literary usage during the 16th-19th centuries. Texts from Russian "Povesti" provide examples from which changes in usage, orthography, and pronunciation are noted. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)