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Russian Conjugation: Theory and Hermeneutic

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Michael Shapiro
Michael Shapiro*
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

The present study re-examines the data of contemporary Russian conjugation in the framework of a semiotic concept of linguistic structure based on markedness as the informing principle. Emphasis is placed on demonstrating the coherence of expression and content that allows grammatical facts to subsist as such. This is achieved by analysing in detail how the relational values of the pertinent grammatical categories are represented diagrammatically in their phonological and morphophonemic expression. Setting explication of grammar as its goal, rather than description or predictability, the analysis articulates a radically different and explicitly hermeneutic perspective for linguistic inquiry.

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Language , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , March 1980, pp. 67 - 93
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Copyright © 1980 by Linguistic Society of America

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