Russian 2210 (Structure of Russian for Language Teachers)
Russian 1400 (Advanced Russian Morphology)

Location: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/structure/textbooks.html
Last modified: 2010-01-11
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Notes from 2010-01-06 meeting

Linguistic issues

• Verbs that take unexpected prepositions, e.g., жаловаться на. See Frank J. Miller, A handbook of Russian verbs. Ann Arbor: Ardis, c1989. PG2271 M44 1989.
• Indeclinable nouns and the Russification of foreign words. See Wade, § 36–37.
• Particles.
• Stress and vowel reduction.
• Historical explanations for modern language phenomena.
• The function and pronunciation of the hard and soft signs.
• Using word-formation strategies to recognize unfamiliar words. See Charles E. Gribble, Russian root list: with a sketch of word formation, Cambridge, MA: Slavica Publishers, c1973. PG2580 .G7 and Gary L. Browning, Workbook to Russian root list,Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, 1985, c1983. PG2583 .B76 1985.
• Superlatives in -ейший and with самый
• Consonant mutation in comparative adjectives (e.g., короткий ~ короче)
• Mobile vowels (in different parts of speech, including short adjectives)
• Это ~ он (e.g., Кто это? ~ Кто он?)
• Adjective formation (e.g., фасолевый but not *фасольский)

Discourse issues

• Hemming, hawing, and stalling like a Russian.

Pedagogical issues

• Teaching in Russian vs teaching in English.
• Incorporating grammar into a four- (speaking, listening, reading, writing) or five-skills (plus culture) classroom.