Paper presented at a conference between American IREX exchange teachers and Soviet faculty, Moscow University, Moscow, U.S.S.R., August 11, 1972. (HK)

This paper examines the question of aspect in Russian, never fully mastered by the non-native speaker. Definitions are not found to be adequate pedagogical tools; the difficulty seems to stem from the notion of binariness. Perfectivity in verbs stems from the concurrence of two features, rather than a single criterion. (CHK)

Offers suggestions about explaining the use of the accusative case in Russian time expressions. (PMP)

It is asserted that noun errors made by students of Russian show that they have not grasped the syntactic functions of the declensional desinences. A number of teaching techniques are outlined which attempt to follow the subconscious processes that speakers of Russian go through in selecting declensional desinences. (RM)

As an aid to students of Russian, two general rules concerning numerals are suggested: rule of the genitive case and rule of the case of "enumerated object." These rules, together with five secondary rules and corresponding declension forms, define the numeral system. (Text is in Russian.) (SK)

Elementary Russian textbooks are criticized generally as failing to supply sufficient specific syntactical information. A method for teaching sentence subordination is described. (RM)

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Describes and advocates a different approach to teaching the Russian verbal system based on determination of a "full or basic stem" for each verb. Relates verb conjugation system and morphological classification of verbs to basic stem. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

Proposes an analysis of the impersonal sentence in Russian based on the Fillmorian case grammar model and intended for use in second language instruction. (CHK)