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