Word-order in Russian and English : a study in functional sentence perspective

Hassanoff, Nikolai Alexandrovich

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Word-order in Russian and English : a study in functional sentence perspective

Date

1972

Authors

Hassanoff, Nikolai Alexandrovich

Abstract

The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to collate a method for dealing with word-order and functional sentence perspective in Russian and English; second, to analyze the prevalent word-order patterns in Russian and to contrast them against their English equivalents.