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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Sources | |
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| Note on transcription, stress marks and transliteration | |
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| Glossary of linguistic terms | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Varieties of language and register | |
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| The Russian language and its distribution | |
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| Varieties of language | |
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| Registers | |
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| The colloquial register (R1) | |
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| Demotic speech (D) | |
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| The neutral register (R2) | |
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| The higher register (R3) | |
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| Styles of belles-lettres ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Language of the internet ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Illustration of register in vocabulary | |
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| Regional variation in Russian | |
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| Standard pronunciation | |
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| Classification of Russian dialects | |
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| Regional features | |
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| Current debate about standard Russian | |
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| Passages illustrating register | |
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| R1: from a TV show | |
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| R1: based on a conversation in a Russian internet chatroom | |
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| R2: magazine interview with a popular actor | |
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| R2: question-and-answer session with President Putin | |
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| R3a: academic style (modern historiography) | |
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| R3a: academic style (scientific writing) | |
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| R3b: official/business style (legal) | |
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| R3b: official/business style (commercial) | |
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| R3c: political journalism (reporting) | |
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| R3c: political journalism (comment) | |
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| Classical poetry | |
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| Literary prose | |
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| Language of the internet | |
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| Problems of meaning: Russian words | |
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| Homonyms | |
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| Examples of homonyms | |
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| Homonyms with different plural forms | |
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| Homophones and homoforms | |
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| Homographs | |
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| Paronyms | |
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| Faux amis ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Problems of number | |
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| Nouns with plural form only | |
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| Nouns with singular form only | |
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| Russian words difficult to render in English | |
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| Problems of translation from English into Russian | |
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| English words difficult to render in Russian | |
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| Translation of the verb to be | |
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| Translation of English modal auxiliary verbs | |
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| Transitive and intransitive verbs | |
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| Translation of English forms ending in -ing | |
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| Translation of too, also, as well | |
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| Vocabulary and idiom | |
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| Neologisms | |
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| Western loanwords in Russian | |
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| Recent loanwords from English | |
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| Neologisms derived from existing Russian words | |
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| Slang | |
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| Computing terminology | |
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| Transition words | |
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| Fillers | |
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| Modal particles | |
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| Interjections | |
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| Vulgar language | |
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| Idioms | |
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| Proverbs and sayings ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Similes | |
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| Language and everyday life | |
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| Measurement | |
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| Length, distance, height | |
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| Area | |
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| Weight | |
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| Volume | |
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| Russian pre-revolutionary units of measure | |
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| Speed | |
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| Temperature | |
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| Currency | |
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| Fractions and presentation of numerals | |
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| Time | |
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| Telephone numbers | |
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| Postal addresses | |
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| Family relationships | |
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| Public notices | |
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| Abbreviations of titles, weights, measures and common expressions | |
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| Acronyms and alphabetisms | |
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| Names of countries and nationalities | |
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| Russia and the other states of the former Soviet Union | |
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| Other regions and national minorities of Russia and the former Soviet Union | |
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| Europe ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Africa ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| America ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Asia ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| The Middle East ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Australia and New Zealand | |
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| Words denoting inhabitants of Russian and former Soviet cities | |
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| Jokes ([characters not reproducible]) and puns ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Verbal etiquette | |
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| Introductory remarks | |
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| Use of [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Personal names | |
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| First names ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Patronymics ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Attracting attention ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Introductions ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Greetings ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Farewells ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Congratulation ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Wishing ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Gratitude ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Apologising ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Request ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Invitation ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Reassurance and condolence ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Compliments ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Telephone conversations ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Letter writing ([characters not reproducible]) | |
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| Word-formation | |
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| Principles of word-formation | |
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| Types of consonant, spelling rules and consonant changes | |
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| Hard and soft consonants | |
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| Use of the hard sign | |
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| Devoicing of consonants | |
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| Spelling rules | |
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| Consonant changes | |
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| Epenthetic [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Verbal prefixes | |
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| Noun prefixes | |
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| Adjectival prefixes | |
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| The verbal infixes [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Noun suffixes | |
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| The principal noun suffixes | |
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| Noun suffixes denoting females | |
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| Miscellaneous noun suffixes | |
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| Diminutive, augmentative and expressive suffixes | |
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| Diminutive and hypocoristic suffixes | |
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| Double diminutive suffixes | |
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| The augmentative suffix [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Pejorative suffixes | |
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| The principal adjectival suffixes | |
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| Suffixes of participial origin | |
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| The verbal suffixes [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Composition | |
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| Compound nouns | |
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| Compound adjectives | |
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| Inflection | |
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| Declension of the noun | |
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| Gender | |
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| Basic declensional patterns of the noun | |
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| Mobile vowels | |
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| Genitive singular forms in [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Locative singular forms in [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Masculine nouns with nominative plural in [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Irregularities in the genitive plural of nouns | |
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| Irregularities in dative/instrumental/prepositional plural forms | |
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| Nouns which are irregular throughout the plural | |
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| Nouns with irregular declension throughout | |
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| Declension of surnames | |
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| Indeclinable nouns | |
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| Declension of pronouns | |
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| Adjectival forms | |
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| Declension of adjectives | |
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| Formation of short adjectives | |
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| Formation of short comparatives | |
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| Formation of adverbs | |
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| Declension of numerals | |
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| Verb forms | |
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| The system of conjugation | |
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| 1A verbs | |
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| 1B verbs with vowel stems and unstressed endings | |
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| 1B verbs with stems in [pi] and p and unstressed endings | |
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| 1B verbs with vowel stems and stressed endings | |
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| 1B verbs with consonant stems and unstressed endings | |
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| 1B verbs with consonant stems and stressed endings | |
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| Second-conjugation verbs | |
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| Irregular verbs | |
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| Formation of the past tense | |
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| Formation of the imperative | |
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| Formation of gerunds and participles | |
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| Formation of imperfective gerunds | |
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| Formation of perfective gerunds | |
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| Formation of present active participles | |
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| Formation of past active participles | |
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| Formation of present passive participles | |
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| Formation of past passive participles | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Valency of prepositions | |
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| Prepositions followed by apparent nominative forms | |
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| Prepositions governing the accusative | |
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| Prepositions governing the genitive | |
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| Prepositions governing the dative | |
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| Prepositions governing the instrumental | |
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| Prepositions governing the prepositional or locative | |
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| Prepositional phrases based on nouns | |
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| Verbs followed by prepositions | |
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| Verbs followed by prepositions governing the accusative | |
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| Verbs followed by prepositions governing the genitive | |
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| Verbs followed by prepositions governing the dative | |
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| Verbs followed by prepositions governing the instrumental | |
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| Verbs followed by prepositions governing the prepositional | |
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| Rendering of English prepositions in Russian | |
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| Syntax | |
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| Use of the cases | |
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| Use of the nominative | |
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| Use of the accusative | |
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| Use of case to denote animate direct object | |
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| Basic uses of the genitive | |
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| Verbs governing the genitive | |
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| Case of direct object after a negated verb | |
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| Basic uses of the dative | |
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| Verbs governing the dative | |
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| Basic uses of the instrumental | |
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| Verbs governing the instrumental | |
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| Use of the prepositional | |
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| Use of pronouns | |
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| Use of [characters not reproducible] as a relative pronoun | |
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| Use of [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] as interrogative pronouns | |
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| Use of negative pronouns ([characters not reproducible] etc.) | |
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| Use of [characters not reproducible], etc. | |
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| Use of the particles [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Use of [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Use of short adjectives | |
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| Use of numerals | |
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| Use of [characters not reproducible] | |
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| Use of numerals higher than one in nominative/accusative | |
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| Use of numerals in oblique cases | |
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| Use of numerals with animate direct object | |
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| Use of collective numerals | |
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| Approximation | |
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| Agreement of predicate with a subject containing a cardinal numeral | |
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| Translation of years and people after numerals | |
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| Distributive expressions | |
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| Time | |
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| Dates | |
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| Distance | |
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| Nouns expressing number | |
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| Use of aspects | |
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| Basic distinction between the aspects | |
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| Effect of adverbial modifiers | |
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| Use of aspect in the indicative | |
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| Use of aspect in the infinitive | |
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| Use of aspect in negative constructions | |
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| Use of aspect in the imperative | |
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| Problems in choice of tense | |
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| Use of verbs of motion | |
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| Use of reflexive verbs | |
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| The conditional mood | |
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| The subjunctive mood | |
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| Use of gerunds and participles | |
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| Use of gerunds | |
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| Use of active participles | |
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| Use of present passive participles | |
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| Use of past passive participles | |
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| Conjunctions | |
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| Coordinating conjunctions | |
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| Subordinating conjunctions | |
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| Subordinating conjunctions used in R1 or R3 | |
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| Syntactic features of colloquial speech | |
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| Word order | |
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| Punctuation | |
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| Use of capital letters | |
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| Stress | |
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| Introductory remarks | |
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| Stress in nouns | |
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| Masculine nouns | |
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| Feminine nouns | |
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| Neuter nouns | |
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| Irregular stress in certain prepositional singular forms | |
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| Prepositions that attract stress in certain phrases | |
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| Stress in adjectives | |
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| Stress in verbs | |
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| Stress in first-conjugation verbs | |
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| Stress in second-conjugation verbs | |
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| Stress in past-tense forms | |
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| Stress in gerunds and participles | |
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| Miscellaneous points | |
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| Variation in stress | |
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| Index of Russian words, phrases and affixes | |
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| General index | |