TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY Tutorial “Regular Russian Verbs (1-st Conjugation) in the Present Tense” AUTHOR Vlada Jackson, Teacher of Russian, Vineland High School, Vineland, NJ; jacksonvld@yahoo.com 50-WORD SUMMARY This tutorial is designed for the beginning level of proficiency of learners of Russian. It begins with a review of essential vocabulary (, , , ), and personal pronouns, followed by the introduction to the concept of “conjugation” giving examples in English (go-goes). Then we demonstrate the patterns of conjugation and verb-formation in Russian. We use Regular Russian Verbs of 1-st Conjugation with vowel stem, such as , , . Next we include &ldquo ...
Does the Tolerance principle explain the problem of Russian paradigm gaps? Elena Kulinich Universite du Quebec a Montreal BACKGROUND MATERIALS AND METHODS DISCUSSION § Inflectional gaps in Russian: missing forms in the 1sg. non-past of certain (1)The Tolerance test was applied to 2nd Stems Rules Exceptions § Yang’s (2016) proposal does not seem to account for defectivity of 2ndconjugation verbs (so-called “defective verbs”). conjugation Russian verbs with dental t, d, s, Russian verbs with dental d-; s- and z- stems because the threshold of and z stems. The list of verbs from Zalizniak t t t productivity ...
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