John Dunn taught for thirty years at the University of Glasgow, where he specialized in Russian and Polish languages, Slavonic linguistics, and the Russian mass media. Initially he concentrated his attention on Russian historical linguistics, but more recently has been examining changes in the Russian language since 1990 with particular reference to the role of English. With his erstwhile colleague Shamil Khairov he co-authored Modern Russian Grammar (Routledge, 2009), the associated Workbook (Routledge, 2011), and Russian For All Occasions (Routledge, 2019). At present he is compiling the Russian entries for GLAD (a global database of Anglicisms).

Marina Rojavin teaches at Bryn Mawr College. She specializes in Russian language, culture, and cinema. She has published articles on the semantic category of gender in Russian and Ukrainian and on the grammatical category of gender in Russian. She and her colleagues published Russian for Advanced Students (2013). Her most recent publications are Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods (Routledge, 2017) and Soviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s: Conformity and Non-Conformity Amidst Decay (Routledge 2021) co-edited with Tim Harte; Russian Nouns of Common Gender in Use (Routledge, 2019) and Russian Function Words: Meanings and Use (Routledge 2019), both completed with Alexander Rojavin; and Russian Syntax for Advanced Students (Routledge, 2022).

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Part I. Phonetics

Chapter 1. Sounds and Spelling

Part II. Morphology

Chapter 2. Nouns

Chapter 3. Pronouns

Chapter 4. Adjectives

Chapter 5. Numerals

Chapter 6. Verbs

Chapter 7. Participles

Chapter 8. Verbal adverbs

Chapter 9. Adverbs

Part III. Syntax

Chapter 10. Simple sentences (1): affirmative statements

Chapter 11. Simple sentences (2): negative statements

Chapter 12. Simple sentences (3): interrogative sentences

Chapter 13. Compound sentences

Chapter 14. Complex sentences

Chapter 15. Agreement

Chapter 16. Word order

Chapter 17. Between syntax and pragmatics

Part IV. Punctuation

Chapter 18. Punctuation

Bibliography

Sources

Index