Russian and Slavic grammar. Studies 1931-1981

The studies published here contain the core of Roman Jakobson's writings on the analysis of various grammatico-morphological categories of Russian, with occasional discussion of other Slavic languages. The 11 articles, originally written in 4 different languages (1,6 in German, 4,7 in Russian, 11 in French, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10 in English) are all presented here in their first published English translation or in the English original. Chapters 1-5 deal with verbal categories, 6-10 with nominal and pronominal categories, and 11 with the concept of the zero sign as exemplified by Russian and Slavic grammatical material.
This volume was planned by Jakobon himself, including the table of contents and the order of the articles; he also read the entire manuscript prior to the editorial work.
Table of Contents:
Editorial Note
Introduction (by Linda R. Waugh)
Structure of the Russian Verb
Russian Conjugation
Relationship between Russian Stem Suffixes and Verbal Aspects
Structure of the Russian and Ukrainian Imperative
Shifters, Verbal Categories, and the Russian Verb
Contribution to the General Theory of Case: General Meanings of the Russian Cases
Morphological Observations on Slavic Declension (The Structure of Russian Case Forms)
The Relationship between Genitive and Plural in the Declension of Russian Nouns
The Gender Pattern of Russian
Notes on the Declension of Pronouns in Contemporary Russian
Zero Sign