The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century

by Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, Gerald Stone

Comrie's and Stone's The Russian Language since the Revolution (OUP 1978) provided a comprehensive account of the way Russian changed in the period between 1917 and the 1970s. In this new volume the authors, joined by Maria Polinsky, extend the time frame back to 1900 and forward to glasnost in the mid 1980s. They first consider changes in the pronunciation, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of the language and then examine the effects of social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019824066X
• ISBN13: 9780198240662
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"