a living russian grammar beginner-intermediate

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... Dulichenko, Karaulov, Kostomarov, Offord, Rakhmanova andSuzdal’tseva, Ryazanova-Clarke and Wade, Shaposhnikov and Zemskaya),as well as new journals, newspapers, magazines and prose works. A glossary of ... linguists.The approach is descriptive throughout, and rules of usage are constantlymeasured against current practice as reflected in contemporary journalisticand literary sources. It is entirely practical ... the language and to tackle perennial problems such as adverbs and pronouns in -то and -нибудь, agreement, animacy, conjugation, declension, gerunds, long and short adjectives, numerals, participles,...

... to a traditional grammar, in that attention is focused on the grammaticalbehaviour of the different parts of speech, as well as on issues that are particularlyimportant to Russian grammar, ... while a separateIndex lists key Russian words in Russian alphabetical order (a table of the Russian alphabet is given at the beginning of Chapter 1). Finally, where anexplanation or an example ... taken place in Russiasince 1985 have been matched by changes to the language. Fortunately (forus, at least) grammar moves at a much slower pace than does vocabulary,although we have had to contend...