A Linguistic History Of Russia To The End Of The Eighteenth Century

Author : A. P. Vlasto
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Linguistic History of Russia to the End of the Eighteenth Century written by A. P. Vlasto and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete and balanced historical grammar of Russian to appear in many years. Clear and readable, with none of the technicalities of theoretical linguistics, it is destined to become the standard introduction in English to Slavonic philology. Focusing on language as it was actually used, the book is accessible to those students of Russian whose main interest is in literature rather than philology. Vlasto traces the merging of Russian with Old Church Slavonic to the evolution of classical modern Russian -- the standard literary language -- at the end of the 18th century.

Author : V. M. Zhivov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Culture in Eighteenth-century Russia written by V. M. Zhivov and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zhivov's magisterial work tells the story of the creation of a new vernacularliterary language in modern Russia, an achievement arguably on a par with thenation's extraordinary military successes, territorial expansion, developmentof the arts, and formation of a modern empire.

Author : Thomas Rosén
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781644694145
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian in the 1740s written by Thomas Rosén and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation offers a broader perspective on the Russian language of the 1740s by analyzing sources that are seldom valued for their linguistic content. It shows that although literate Russians were exposed to a growing number of modern printed texts, they mostly kept to traditional forms of written language during this period.

Author : Григорий Осипович Винокур
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521079446
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Language written by Григорий Осипович Винокур and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-04-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work traces the Russian language from its origins for the Common Slavonic to the twentieth century.

Author : Lindsey Hughes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300143745
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter the Great written by Lindsey Hughes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter the Great (1672–1725), tsar of Russia for forty-three years, was a dramatic, appealing, and unconventional character. This book provides a vivid sense of the dynamics of his life—both public and private—and his reign. Drawing on his letters and papers, as well as on other contemporary accounts, the book provides new insights into Peter’s complex character, giving information on his actions, deliberations, possessions, and significant fantasy world--his many disguises and pseudonyms, his interest in dwarfs, his clowning and vandalism. It also sheds fresh light on his relationships with individuals such as his second wife Catherine and his favorite, Alexander Menshikov. The book includes discussions of Peter’s image in painting and sculpture, and there are two final chapters on his legacy and posthumous reputation up to the present.

Author : James Cracraft
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029968
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture written by James Cracraft and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reforms initiated by Peter the Great transformed Russia not only into a European power, but into a European culture--a shift, argues James Cracraft, that was nothing less than revolutionary. The author of seminal works on visual culture in the Petrine era, Cracraft now turns his attention to the changes that occurred in Russian verbal culture. The forceful institutionalization of the tsar's reforms--the establishment of a navy, modernization of the army, restructuring of the government, introduction of new arts and sciences--had an enormous impact on language. Cracraft details the transmission to Russia of contemporary European naval, military, bureaucratic, legal, scientific, and literary norms and their corresponding lexical and other linguistic effects. This crucial first stage in the development of a "modern" verbal culture in Russia saw the translation and publication of a wholly unprecedented number of textbooks and treatises; the establishment of new printing presses and the introduction of a new alphabet; the compilation, for the first time, of grammars and dictionaries of Russian; and the initial standardization, in consequence, of the modern Russian literary language. Peter's creation of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the chief agency advancing these reforms, is also highlighted. In the conclusion to his masterwork, Cracraft deftly pulls together the Petrine reforms in verbal and visual culture to portray a revolution that would have dramatic consequences for Russia, and for the world.

Author : Henning Andersen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027236275
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Linguistics, 1993 written by Henning Andersen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal (illustrated with changes in romance, French, Pennsylvania German, Afrikaans, English, Finnish), changes in syntax (Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Dutch, English) and discourse structure (Old Russian, Old French), morphology (German, Turkic), phonology (Romance, Italian, French, German, Old English, English). Several papers include sociolinguistic, areal, and typological perspectives on change; a few are specifically concerned with reconstruction or with the principles of reconstruction, and several demonstrate the continued importance of the philological methods in the study of texts.

Author : Elana Goldberg Shohamy
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847692974
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Landscape in the City written by Elana Goldberg Shohamy and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2010 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elana Shohamy is a professor and chair of the language education program at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University, where she teaches, researches and writes about multiple issues relating to multilingualism: language policy, language testing and language in the public space. --

Author : Nicholas Rzhevsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107002524
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture written by Nicholas Rzhevsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated new edition of this overview of contemporary Russia and the influence of its Soviet past.

Author : Derek Offord
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748695524
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French and Russian in Imperial Russia written by Derek Offord and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two companion volumes which examine language use and language attitudes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, focusing on the transitional period from the Enlightenment to the age of Pushkin.