| The Evolution of the System of Long and Short Adjectives in Old Russian Contributor(s): Larsen, Karin (Author) |
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ISBN: 3876909015 ISBN-13: 9783876909011 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $38.71 Product Type: Paperback Language: German Published: January 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Slavic Languages (other) - Foreign Language Study | Russian |
| Dewey: 491.755 |
| LCCN: 2005433532 |
| Series: Slavistische Beitraege |
| Physical Information: 283 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The present study is a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the system of long and short adjectives in Old Russian, a profound language change to which very little previous research has been devoted. It is generally assumed that in prehistoric Slavic, the system was purely grammatical with the long form denoting definiteness and the short form denoting indefiniteness. The present study finds, on the basis of evidence collected from Old Russian chronicle texts, that even the earliest of these sources display a substantially transformed system no longer reflecting the opposition between definiteness and indefiniteness, but governed by parameters of information structure. |