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Article: The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century. By BERNARD COMRIE, GERALD STONE, and MARIA POLINSKY. 2nd edn, revised and expanded. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1996. xii + 385 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].
This new edition of Bernard Comrie's and Gerald Stone's important book, which was first published in 1978, extends the perspective of the authors' examination of the Russian language by considering developments both in the period 1900-17 and in the 1980s. It thus serves to reinforce the authors' emphasis on the extent to which twentieth-century standard Russian differs from the nineteenth-century language. There are brief new sections on such matters as intonation and its ...