Università Roma Tre

The course illustrates the phonetics, phonology, and orthography of the Russian language (cyrillic alphabet), and provides an introduction to functional aspects of sound, such as accent and intonation and the system of Russian morphosyntax (nominal declension, category of animacy, verbal aspect, impersonal sentence, syntax of simple sentence).

A.Gancikov, Grammatica russa facile, Vallardi, Milano
Additional reading materials will be distributed in class.

Additional readings for non attending-students:
Timberlake, A Reference Grammar of Russian, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.

Attendance at lessons is highly recommended.
Non-attending students are requested to contact the teacher (e-mail: valentina.benigni@uniroma3.it)