Abstract
Russian is a language with relatively free word order. Grammatical functions, such as subject and object, are identified by case marking, rather than by position. Thus, for example, in the following sentence1
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Книгу он читaл. Knigu on čital book[ACC] he[NOM] read He read (a/the) book.
the two NPs may occur in either order in many different syntactic positions; the object is marked with Accusative and the subject with Nominative case. Particular morphological realizations of the Nominative, Accusative, or any other case, differ from one declension class to another.
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See Chvany (1984) for an interesting discussion of the Jakobson feature system(s) and alternative perspectives on the features. See also her discussion of the ordering of features in the matrix.
See Yokoyama (1984) for discussion of Russian word order.
See Chvany (1975) for discussion. Nichols (1981) makes somewhat different distinctions.
By Nekrasov (1905) and Schooneveld (1977); see chapter 5 in Klenin (1983) for discussion.
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Neidle, C. (1988). Overview of Case in Russian. In: The Role of Case in Russian Syntax. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2703-2_1
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