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by Gazariah
Thu May 11, 2006 2:01 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Russian Lessons / Uroki Russkogo Jazyka (Take 2)
Replies: 68
Views: 83636

You can say: 1. Я учусь русскому языку. "I am studying Russian" (dative object). This will likely mean that you are enrolled in a course. 2. Я учусь в университете. "I study at the university." Вы рaботaете? Нет, я учусь. "Do you work? No, I'm going to school." 3. Я учу русские словa. "I am learning...
by Gazariah
Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:08 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Russian Lessons / Uroki Russkogo Jazyka (Take 2)
Replies: 68
Views: 83636

Whenever I say "Есть anything" I'm always corrected, and told that it sounds really awkward... That's because есть is not very close to "there is/are" in English. The main use of есть is asking whether somebody has something, and saying that somebody has something. It would be used in "Do you have ...
by Gazariah
Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:22 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Russian Lessons / Uroki Russkogo Jazyka (Take 2)
Replies: 68
Views: 83636

Toumas, I can see you have good knowledge on this subject. Maybe I did mistake transliteration for phonemics. It's not enclosed in slashes. Letter <e> for /e/ in some places and /o/ in others is a problem. But it's a problem with the Russian writing system in general. Are you going to tell students ...
by Gazariah
Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:46 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Russian Lessons / Uroki Russkogo Jazyka (Take 2)
Replies: 68
Views: 83636

Related to the above are the following irregulars, where the /e/ mutated to /o/ in a historical shift. This is also why the letter Ё is just an Е with an umlaut. * сестра sestr? "sister" > сёстры sj?stry * жена zhen? "wife, woman" > жёны zhj?ny This is not quite right. The plural "sisters" is /s'?s...
by Gazariah
Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:45 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Replies: 87
Views: 89413

chris_notts wrote: As for no noun being better than any other for things like number... some nouns clear are. Take nouns like for instance sand, water, or anything else which is typically concieved of as mass... such nouns are clearly much less representative of either singular or plural than thing...
by Gazariah
Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:14 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Replies: 87
Views: 89413

?Papapishu! wrote: I put the cat out. Is it present habitual, or simple past? It must be good. Is it a conclusion the speaker has drawn, or is a statement of what's required? Good examples. But what I'm saying is that every time a sentence like these is used, the speaker is encoding one usage or th...
by Gazariah
Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:43 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Replies: 87
Views: 89413

Paralleling the savoir example with one in English: I like to crab. Crab is tasty. Once a verb, once a noun. But it's not "something inbetween" in either sentence. I need to clarify what I mean by grammatical category. The traditional parts of speech are not grammatical categories. It's quite possib...
by Gazariah
Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:49 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Replies: 87
Views: 89413

Zomp, sorry. I was editing when you posted the reply, so the quote doesn't match my words any more. But the point is unchanged. I take the view that grammatical categores are Aristotelean because I have never seen one that isn't. I do believe that lexical categories are based on prototypes, family r...
by Gazariah
Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:14 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Replies: 87
Views: 89413

Human beings create all subconscious categories (including the natural categories existing within the grammar and lexicon of natural languages) based on ?fuzzy? logic, ?prototypes? and family resemblances. When it comes to grammatical categories, I think this overstates the case. But then, I'm not ...
by Gazariah
Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:39 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: motion verbs
Replies: 16
Views: 15387

Toumas, Here's an answer from somebody who really knows Russian, although I may not understand well enough what you want to know. Fact is, most verbs in Russian are "born" imperfective. That's not what the textbooks tell you, but it's the best way of looking at this. For example, "cut" is /rezat'/, ...