GRAMMAR MAILBAG: TABLE OF CONTENTS
Phonology
The Russian Sound System and the Cyrillic Alphabet
The "hard sign"
(ъ)
The Fall of the
Jers
and Fleeting Vowels
Punctuation
Quotation Marks and Punctuation
The Noun
Animate/Inanimate
The "soft sign" (ь) as gender marker
Gender and путь, and a little bit about "sex"
Nouns of common gender: "Drunks, doctors and shot-putters"
The Question of Definite and Indefinite Articles
Number: Singular, Plural and... Body Parts!
The Locative II
The Partitive Genitive and the Genitive II
The genitive plural of
дно
and the genitive plural in general
The Vocative Case
The Grammar of Abbreviations/Acronyms
Breaking out new Abbreviations/Acronyms
The Verb
Aspect: Basic Notions
The Infinitive as Imperative
Impersonal Constructions and Intransitive Verbs
Potpourri
I say "Synecdoche," you say "Schenectady"
"Dead Dogs" and Authentic Texts
The particle
-ка
The gestalt of
"жириновщина"
and other
"-щина"
words