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

Original Russian version appeared in Sign, Language, Culture,'' edited by A. Greimas et al., Mouton, 1970, p195-215. (RS)

Examples illustrate that there are possible independent meanings of the imperfective, possessing stronger modality than the perfective in the Russian verb system. This is examined in past tense, infinitive, and imperative structures. (PMJ)

A HyperCard stack using digitized video to provide students of Russian with meaningful exercise in the use of verbal aspect and verbs of motion and position is described. Several problems presented by the Russian verb are defined. Examples of traditional textbook exercises are presented--translations, fill-ins, and picture-based approaches, and…

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)

Third of a series of drills on Russian verbs of motion. Answers are provided. (Text is in Russian.) (TL)

Descriptions of the perfective aspect in Russian taken from Miklosich, Saxmatov, Peskovsky, Fortunatov, and Karcevskij serve as background reading to the author's discussion of the problem. He explores three basic questions: (1) Is aspect a Russian problem in grammar or lexicography; (2) What is the nature of the correlation between the perfective…

Discusses the teaching of Russian aspect in terms of the use of the perfective and the social ramifications and perceptions conveyed by its use. The student must be made aware of the importance of implications of statements in Russian. (CHK)