The Declension and Derivation of the Russian Simple NumeralsEdward Stankiewicz
In the late Proto-Slavic period new adjectives arose that were inflected according to the pattern of the pronominal declension, for example, dobrъjь, dobraja, dobroje (“good”). Numerals in Proto-Slavic were not a separate part of speech; nouns that signified numbers had various nominal ...
Caldwell graduated from the university of Glasgow where he came under the influence of Daniel Keyte Sandford, a professor of Greek whose innovative research encouraged Caldwell to take an interest in comparative philology. It is said that Caldwell was proficient in seven languages. At the age of ...
It should be noted, however, that among the differences between “Slavonic” and the “Great Russian” language Polikarpov also included the presence/absence of the alternation of velars and sibilants in noun declensions, the use of the second genitive, the potential (precisely the potential) ...
As Alexiadou (2020) mentions, the former type is the most frequent one and applies to all nouns triggering a gender shift—it always yields the neuter nouns—and a declension class (DC) shift. By contrast, the nouns combining with the latter type preserve their gender and their DC. As ...