Review: How Russian Came to Be the Way It Is. A Student Guide to the History of the Russian Language; Studies in Accentology and Slavic Linguistics in Honor of Ronald F. Feldstein

Authors

Ljiljana Durašković

Keywords

Russian, linguistics, language class, history

Abstract

Tore Nesset is professor of Russian Linguistics at Arctic University of Norway. As many other professors, he has frequently found himself in situations where the simple conjugation of a verb like писать ‘write’ (1) triggered many questions from his Russian class. It is in practice impossible “to travel through time/centuries” every time a new exceptional form is introduced or mentioned in the setting of a language class. How Russian Came to Be the Way It Is is designed to make Russian more accessible to students by shedding light on Russian linguistic changes over its history.

Recommended Citation

Durašković, L. (2016). Review: How Russian Came to Be the Way It Is. A Student Guide to the History of the Russian Language; Studies in Accentology and Slavic Linguistics in Honor of Ronald F. Feldstein. Russian Language Journal, 66(1). https://doi.org/10.70163/0036-0252.1085