Marina Rojavin teaches at Bryn Mawr College, USA. She specializes in Russian language and culture, in particular in Soviet film and the history of Russian 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 publishedthe textbook Russian for Advanced Students (2013). Her most recent publications are Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods (Routledge 2017), 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 Soviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s: Conformity and Non-Conformity Amidst Decay (Routledge 2021), co-edited with Tim Harte.

About the Book and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviations

Syntax Defined

Part One. The Simple Sentence

Chapter 1.Simple Sentences

Chapter 2. Main Parts of a Sentence

Chapter 3. Secondary Parts of a Sentence

Chapter 4. Simple Sentences with One Main Part

Chapter 5. Coordinate Parts of Sentences

Chapter 6. Parenthetic Expressions. Detached Parts of the Sentence. Vocatives

Part Two. The Compound Sentence

Chapter 7. Sentences with Copulative Conjunctions

Chapter 8. Sentences with Disjunctive Conjunctions

Chapter 9. Sentences with Adversative Conjunctions

Part Three. The Complex Sentence

Chapter 10.Explanatory Clauses

Chapter 11. Attributive Clauses

Chapter 12. Adverbial Clauses

Part Four. Direct and Indirect Speech

Chapter 13. Direct Speech

Chapter 14. Indirect speech

Part Five. Punctuation

Chapter 15. Punctuation Marks

List of Full and Short Names

Sources

Bibliography

Index