author = { Nesset, Tore },

title = { How Russian came to be the way it is a student's guide to the history of the Russian language },

publisher = {Slavica Publishers},

isbn = {9780893574437},

keywords = { Russian language To 1500 History , Russian language History , Proto-Slavic language History , Russian language History To 1500 , Lehrbuch , Urslawisch , Russisch , Historische Sprachwissenschaft , Grammatik , Geschichte },

year = {August 2015},

abstract = {Includes bibliographical references and index},

abstract = {Introduction: today's exceptions; yesterday's rulesThe scene: from prehistory to Peter I "The Great" -- The texts: writing and literature in Kievan Rus' and Muscovy -- The toolbox: linguistic tools for analyzing the history of Russian -- Morphology: nouns -- Morphology: pronouns -- Morphology: adjectives -- Morphology: numbers and numerals -- Morphology: verbs -- Syntax -- Phonology: pre-Slavic and common Slavic vowels and diphthongs -- Phonology: pre-Slavic and common Slavic consonants -- Phonology: from old Rusian to modern Russian -- Phonology: stress and vowel reduction -- A visit from Novgorod: the language of the birch bark -- Letters -- Epilogue: reflections on a triangle.},

address = { Bloomington, Indiana },

url = { http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2 }