| 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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