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Peer reviewedLeeming, H. – Slavonic and East European Review, 1973
Discusses Polish influences in East Slavonic and presents results of personal research into the vocabulary of pre-Petrine Russian sources with comments on Ukrainian and Byelorussian as intermediaries in the transmission of Latin words via Polish to Russian; paper presented at the 7th International Congress of Slavists, Warsaw, Poland, August 1973.…
Descriptors: Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage
Download full textSenn, Alfred – Language, 1949
This study examines the theory of Prokosch concerning the Germanic-Slavic-Baltic tense and aspect systems. The interrelatedness and influence of languages and dialects in Slavic (Russian and Old Church Slavic), Baltic (Lithuanian), and Germanic (Old High German and Gothic) are demonstrated. Examples illustrating the use of the perfective present…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), German, Grammar
Peer reviewedFortescue, Michael – Journal of Linguistics, 1993
Although Eskimo languages are commonly characterized as displaying rather "free" word order compared to major western European languages, West Greenlandic (WG) has a clearly dominant, pragmatically neutral ordering pattern. It is argued that WG behaves more like Slavic languages. (Contains 36 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Foreign Countries
Manning, Clarence A. – Slavistica, 1959
Differences between the English and Ukrainian verbal forms, meaning, and usage are studied in this booklet. While the author illustrates significant distinctions in basic forms, sentences, and in paragraph structure, he concludes that the most important differences between both systems are of a psychological nature. Examples are cited, often using…
Descriptors: Cyrillic Alphabet, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages)
Wheeler, Marcus – Annali, 1961
The problem of determining the grammatical status of predicate words in Russian is examined in this article. The contrast between the morphological heterogeneity and the seemingly uniform function of predicative forms has led to the postulation of a new part of speech described as the "category of state". However, the status of predicate words as…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Componential Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), Form Classes (Languages)
PDF pending restorationBirkenmayer, Sigmund S.
This paper discusses the relationship of Polish to the other languages considered to be within the Slavic group. The comparison is mainly phonological and considers the Proto-Slavic features still preserved in Polish as well as the distinctive features of Polish which have developed from Proto-Slavic. The development of vowels and consonants is…
Descriptors: Baltic Languages, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics
