Author : Alexander S. Heard
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ISBN 13 : 9781944787981
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (879 download)
Book Synopsis Essays on Russian Historical Dialectology by : Alexander S. Heard
Download or read book Essays on Russian Historical Dialectology written by Alexander S. Heard and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a monumental work of almost 60 years of research and expeditions of Professor Alexander Herd in Russian historical dialectology. Readers, who are interested in language variation and historical linguistics, will find interesting theoretical proposals as well as suggestions concerning ways of approaching previously unsolved empirical problems in Russian historical dialectology. The monograph deals with various aspects of Russian historical regional dialectology. The monograph borders on the issue of historical dialectology and linguistic change. The information is proportionally focused on Russian historical dialectology. At the same time it serves as a comparative linguistics manual for ALL slavic languages. The monograph covers all aspects of Russian historical dialectology, presenting the material with the dialectological map of the Russian Dialects. The language specific contributions also often cover areas of a more general nature. The results indicate new vistas for further productive research in the area of historical dialectology.