Using Russian

A Guide to Contemporary Usage

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Paperback | 18 October 2005 | Edition Number 2

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Using Russian is a guide to Russian usage for those who have already acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their knowledge. Unlike conventional grammars, it gives special attention to those areas of vocabulary and grammar which cause most difficulty to English speakers, and focuses on questions of style and register which are all too often ignored. Clear, readable and easy to consult, it will prove invaluable to students seeking to improve their fluency and confidence in Russian. This second edition has been substantially revised and expanded to incorporate fresh material and up-to-date information. Many of the original chapters have been rewritten and one brand new chapter has been added, providing a clear picture of Russian usage in the 21st century.

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"...contains a greater wealth of information...highly recommended for collections serving teachers, translators and graduate students of Russian." --B.K. Beynen, Choice "There truly is something for everyone in this most handy volume...Using Russian is an excellent and most useful tool, a credit to the high level of British scholarship in this area" Del Phillips, Slavic and East European Journal

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Preface to the first edition	p. xiii
Preface to the second edition	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Sources	p. xix
Note on transcription, stress marks and transliteration	p. xxii
Glossary of linguistic terms	p. xxiii
List of abbreviations	p. xxxiii
Varieties of language and register	p. 1
The Russian language and its distribution	p. 1
Varieties of language	p. 6
Registers	p. 9
The colloquial register (R1)	p. 10
Demotic speech (D)	p. 13
The neutral register (R2)	p. 14
The higher register (R3)	p. 15
Styles of belles-lettres ([characters not reproducible])	p. 17
Language of the internet ([characters not reproducible])	p. 17
Illustration of register in vocabulary	p. 18
Regional variation in Russian	p. 19
Standard pronunciation	p. 20
Classification of Russian dialects	p. 21
Regional features	p. 22
Current debate about standard Russian	p. 25
Passages illustrating register	p. 32
R1: from a TV show	p. 32
R1: based on a conversation in a Russian internet chatroom	p. 36
R2: magazine interview with a popular actor	p. 40
R2: question-and-answer session with President Putin	p. 43
R3a: academic style (modern historiography)	p. 45
R3a: academic style (scientific writing)	p. 47
R3b: official/business style (legal)	p. 50
R3b: official/business style (commercial)	p. 53
R3c: political journalism (reporting)	p. 57
R3c: political journalism (comment)	p. 60
Classical poetry	p. 62
Literary prose	p. 65
Language of the internet	p. 68
Problems of meaning: Russian words	p. 73
Homonyms	p. 73
Examples of homonyms	p. 73
Homonyms with different plural forms	p. 78
Homophones and homoforms	p. 79
Homographs	p. 81
Paronyms	p. 82
Faux amis ([characters not reproducible])	p. 87
Problems of number	p. 91
Nouns with plural form only	p. 91
Nouns with singular form only	p. 92
Russian words difficult to render in English	p. 93
Problems of translation from English into Russian	p. 98
English words difficult to render in Russian	p. 98
Translation of the verb to be	p. 150
Translation of English modal auxiliary verbs	p. 154
Transitive and intransitive verbs	p. 159
Translation of English forms ending in -ing	p. 160
Translation of too, also, as well	p. 162
Vocabulary and idiom	p. 163
Neologisms	p. 163
Western loanwords in Russian	p. 163
Recent loanwords from English	p. 165
Neologisms derived from existing Russian words	p. 166
Slang	p. 169
Computing terminology	p. 171
Transition words	p. 176
Fillers	p. 177
Modal particles	p. 179
Interjections	p. 188
Vulgar language	p. 190
Idioms	p. 193
Proverbs and sayings ([characters not reproducible])	p. 199
Similes	p. 202
Language and everyday life	p. 203
Measurement	p. 203
Length, distance, height	p. 203
Area	p. 204
Weight	p. 204
Volume	p. 205
Russian pre-revolutionary units of measure	p. 205
Speed	p. 206
Temperature	p. 206
Currency	p. 207
Fractions and presentation of numerals	p. 207
Time	p. 207
Telephone numbers	p. 208
Postal addresses	p. 208
Family relationships	p. 209
Public notices	p. 209
Abbreviations of titles, weights, measures and common expressions	p. 211
Acronyms and alphabetisms	p. 213
Names of countries and nationalities	p. 216
Russia and the other states of the former Soviet Union	p. 216
Other regions and national minorities of Russia and the former Soviet Union	p. 217
Europe ([characters not reproducible])	p. 218
Africa ([characters not reproducible])	p. 220
America ([characters not reproducible])	p. 221
Asia ([characters not reproducible])	p. 221
The Middle East ([characters not reproducible])	p. 222
Australia and New Zealand	p. 223
Words denoting inhabitants of Russian and former Soviet cities	p. 223
Jokes ([characters not reproducible]) and puns ([characters not reproducible])	p. 225
Verbal etiquette	p. 228
Introductory remarks	p. 228
Use of [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible]	p. 229
Personal names	p. 230
First names ([characters not reproducible])	p. 230
Patronymics ([characters not reproducible])	p. 233
Attracting attention ([characters not reproducible])	p. 235
Introductions ([characters not reproducible])	p. 237
Greetings ([characters not reproducible])	p. 239
Farewells ([characters not reproducible])	p. 241
Congratulation ([characters not reproducible])	p. 242
Wishing ([characters not reproducible])	p. 242
Gratitude ([characters not reproducible])	p. 244
Apologising ([characters not reproducible])	p. 244
Request ([characters not reproducible])	p. 245
Invitation ([characters not reproducible])	p. 247
Reassurance and condolence ([characters not reproducible])	p. 247
Compliments ([characters not reproducible])	p. 248
Telephone conversations ([characters not reproducible])	p. 248
Letter writing ([characters not reproducible])	p. 250
Word-formation	p. 252
Principles of word-formation	p. 252
Types of consonant, spelling rules and consonant changes	p. 253
Hard and soft consonants	p. 253
Use of the hard sign	p. 253
Devoicing of consonants	p. 254
Spelling rules	p. 254
Consonant changes	p. 255
Epenthetic [characters not reproducible]	p. 255
Verbal prefixes	p. 255
Noun prefixes	p. 263
Adjectival prefixes	p. 264
The verbal infixes [characters not reproducible]	p. 265
Noun suffixes	p. 266
The principal noun suffixes	p. 266
Noun suffixes denoting females	p. 274
Miscellaneous noun suffixes	p. 276
Diminutive, augmentative and expressive suffixes	p. 277
Diminutive and hypocoristic suffixes	p. 277
Double diminutive suffixes	p. 279
The augmentative suffix [characters not reproducible]	p. 279
Pejorative suffixes	p. 279
The principal adjectival suffixes	p. 280
Suffixes of participial origin	p. 284
The verbal suffixes [characters not reproducible]	p. 285
Composition	p. 286
Compound nouns	p. 286
Compound adjectives	p. 287
Inflection	p. 288
Declension of the noun	p. 288
Gender	p. 288
Basic declensional patterns of the noun	p. 289
Mobile vowels	p. 291
Genitive singular forms in [characters not reproducible]	p. 291
Locative singular forms in [characters not reproducible]	p. 292
Masculine nouns with nominative plural in [characters not reproducible]	p. 294
Irregularities in the genitive plural of nouns	p. 296
Irregularities in dative/instrumental/prepositional plural forms	p. 299
Nouns which are irregular throughout the plural	p. 299
Nouns with irregular declension throughout	p. 301
Declension of surnames	p. 303
Indeclinable nouns	p. 304
Declension of pronouns	p. 305
Adjectival forms	p. 307
Declension of adjectives	p. 307
Formation of short adjectives	p. 309
Formation of short comparatives	p. 310
Formation of adverbs	p. 312
Declension of numerals	p. 313
Verb forms	p. 315
The system of conjugation	p. 315
1A verbs	p. 316
1B verbs with vowel stems and unstressed endings	p. 316
1B verbs with stems in [pi] and p and unstressed endings	p. 316
1B verbs with vowel stems and stressed endings	p. 317
1B verbs with consonant stems and unstressed endings	p. 317
1B verbs with consonant stems and stressed endings	p. 319
Second-conjugation verbs	p. 322
Irregular verbs	p. 324
Formation of the past tense	p. 325
Formation of the imperative	p. 326
Formation of gerunds and participles	p. 328
Formation of imperfective gerunds	p. 328
Formation of perfective gerunds	p. 328
Formation of present active participles	p. 329
Formation of past active participles	p. 329
Formation of present passive participles	p. 330
Formation of past passive participles	p. 330
Prepositions	p. 333
Valency of prepositions	p. 333
Prepositions followed by apparent nominative forms	p. 333
Prepositions governing the accusative	p. 334
Prepositions governing the genitive	p. 337
Prepositions governing the dative	p. 343
Prepositions governing the instrumental	p. 345
Prepositions governing the prepositional or locative	p. 346
Prepositional phrases based on nouns	p. 350
Verbs followed by prepositions	p. 350
Verbs followed by prepositions governing the accusative	p. 350
Verbs followed by prepositions governing the genitive	p. 351
Verbs followed by prepositions governing the dative	p. 352
Verbs followed by prepositions governing the instrumental	p. 352
Verbs followed by prepositions governing the prepositional	p. 353
Rendering of English prepositions in Russian	p. 354
Syntax	p. 377
Use of the cases	p. 377
Use of the nominative	p. 377
Use of the accusative	p. 377
Use of case to denote animate direct object	p. 378
Basic uses of the genitive	p. 380
Verbs governing the genitive	p. 381
Case of direct object after a negated verb	p. 382
Basic uses of the dative	p. 384
Verbs governing the dative	p. 386
Basic uses of the instrumental	p. 388
Verbs governing the instrumental	p. 388
Use of the prepositional	p. 391
Use of pronouns	p. 391
Use of [characters not reproducible] as a relative pronoun	p. 391
Use of [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] as interrogative pronouns	p. 392
Use of negative pronouns ([characters not reproducible] etc.)	p. 392
Use of [characters not reproducible], etc.	p. 393
Use of the particles [characters not reproducible]	p. 393
Use of [characters not reproducible]	p. 394
Use of short adjectives	p. 395
Use of numerals	p. 398
Use of [characters not reproducible]	p. 398
Use of numerals higher than one in nominative/accusative	p. 398
Use of numerals in oblique cases	p. 399
Use of numerals with animate direct object	p. 399
Use of collective numerals	p. 400
Approximation	p. 401
Agreement of predicate with a subject containing a cardinal numeral	p. 401
Translation of years and people after numerals	p. 402
Distributive expressions	p. 402
Time	p. 403
Dates	p. 404
Distance	p. 404
Nouns expressing number	p. 405
Use of aspects	p. 405
Basic distinction between the aspects	p. 405
Effect of adverbial modifiers	p. 406
Use of aspect in the indicative	p. 406
Use of aspect in the infinitive	p. 408
Use of aspect in negative constructions	p. 409
Use of aspect in the imperative	p. 410
Problems in choice of tense	p. 411
Use of verbs of motion	p. 412
Use of reflexive verbs	p. 413
The conditional mood	p. 415
The subjunctive mood	p. 416
Use of gerunds and participles	p. 418
Use of gerunds	p. 418
Use of active participles	p. 419
Use of present passive participles	p. 419
Use of past passive participles	p. 419
Conjunctions	p. 420
Coordinating conjunctions	p. 420
Subordinating conjunctions	p. 422
Subordinating conjunctions used in R1 or R3	p. 423
Syntactic features of colloquial speech	p. 424
Word order	p. 425
Punctuation	p. 428
Use of capital letters	p. 432
Stress	p. 433
Introductory remarks	p. 433
Stress in nouns	p. 433
Masculine nouns	p. 434
Feminine nouns	p. 438
Neuter nouns	p. 440
Irregular stress in certain prepositional singular forms	p. 442
Prepositions that attract stress in certain phrases	p. 443
Stress in adjectives	p. 443
Stress in verbs	p. 444
Stress in first-conjugation verbs	p. 444
Stress in second-conjugation verbs	p. 445
Stress in past-tense forms	p. 447
Stress in gerunds and participles	p. 449
Miscellaneous points	p. 452
Variation in stress	p. 452
Index of Russian words, phrases and affixes	p. 455
General index	p. 487
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