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How Russian came to be the way it is : a student's guide to the history of the Russian language
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- Creator
- Tore Nesset
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Bloomington, Indiana : Slavica Publishers, 2015
- Physical Details
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- xxv, 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780893574437, 0893574430
- OCLC
- ocn907976007
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-347) and indexes.
- Introduction : today's exceptions--yesterday's rules -- The scene : from prehistory to Peter I "The Great" -- The texts : writing and literature in Kievan Rus' and Muscovy -- The toolbox : linguistic tools for analyzing the history of Russian -- Morphology : nouns -- Morphology : pronouns -- Morphology : adjectives -- Morphology : numbers and numerals -- Morphology : verbs -- Syntax -- Phonology : pre-Slavic and common Slavic vowels and diphthongs -- Phonology : pre-Slavic and common Slavic consonants -- Phonology : from old Rusian to modern Russian -- Phonology : stress and vowel reduction -- A visit from Novgorod : the language of the birch bark letters -- Epilogue : reflections on a triangle