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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 2
Abbreviations 3
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1 Location and number of speakers 4
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2 Brief overview of the Russian literary language 4
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3 Dialects 5
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Phonology 6
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1 Orthography 6
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2 Phonemic inventory 8
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Vowels and Prosody 9
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 2
Abbreviations 3
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1 Location and number of speakers 4
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2 Brief overview of the Russian literary language 4
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3 Dialects 5
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Phonology 6
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1 Orthography 6
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2 Phonemic inventory 8
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Vowels and Prosody 9
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4 Consonants 13
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5 Morphophonemic alternations 17
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6 Pronunciations variants of CSR in Moscow and St.
Petersburg 20
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7 Tongue twisters and diction 21
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Morphology 22
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1 Inflectional morphology 22
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2 Declension 24
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3 Indeclinable Nouns 29
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4 Other declensional desinences: singular 30
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5 Declensional desinences: plural 31
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6 Formation of the Genitive Plural 32
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7 The semantics of the Russian case system 34
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8 Adjectives 41
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9 Pronouns 49
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10 Numerals 56
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11 Time expressions 62
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12 Nondeclinables: Adverbs and prepositions 64
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13 Derivational Morphology 67
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14 Verbs 82
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Syntax 123
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1 Syntax and syntactic categories 123
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2 Conditionals/Hypotheticals 123
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3 Grammatical particles 124
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