An essential guide to Russian syntax, which examines major syntactic structures and grammatical puzzles of the language.

John Frederick Bailyn is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University. He is the author of numerous articles and edited volumes on formal Slavic linguistics especially in the areas of case, word order, functional categories, syntactic microvariation and binding.

Part I. Basic Configurations: 1. Verbal phrases; 2. Nominal phrases; 3. Types of clauses; Part II. Case: 4. Core cases of Russian case; 5. More cases of Russian case: predicate instrumental, quantificational genitive and others...; Part III. Word Order: 6. A descriptive overview of Russian word order; 7. Theoretical issues in Russian word order.