6 articles in this issue
Olga Komarova
The article deals with problems connected with recent lexical shifts in Russian. Focus is on the penetration of lower-class social and profes- sional slang into standard spoken Russian. Changes in the language re- flect changes in the cultural status of n... see more
Lennart Lönngren
When used as predicates, prepositions generally take two subordinate se- mantic members, so-called actants. Prepositions that are one-place predi- cates occur, for instance s and okolo with the meaning ‘approximately'.Somewhat more common are prepositions... see more
Erik Egeberg
The prose of Andrej Belyj shows many features typical of poetry. In this paper some of these phenomena - word order, orchestration, metaphors - are briefly discussed on the basis of material from Belyj's first novel, «The silver dove» (1909), with special... see more
Jan Brodal
This article reflects on the relationships between Rodion Raskol’nikov and the women that surround him in Dostoevskij’s Prestuplenie i nakazanie (Crime and Punishment).
Terje Helland
This article provides an introduction to and edition of the Serbian Church Slavonic text of the Martyrion of Dorotheos of Alexandria.
Tore Nesset
This paper discusses vowel reduction in Russian and shows how phonological neutralization can be accounted for in Cognitive Grammar.