Olga Kagan

V Puti: Student Activities Manual is an integral part of the V Puti course and is designed for use alongside V Puti: Russian Grammar in Context. The structure matches the main textbook and provides a wealth of exercises and activities, either for class use or homework. This third edition offers a wider variety of exercises and activities which incorporate more recent language pedagogies.This highly successful program assists in the development of learners’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills by presenting realistic settings, situations, and contexts. It consists of 12 chapters offering conversational exercises, various readings (biographies, poems, literature, and historical texts), and grammatical explanations and practice. All of these components reinforce Russian culture and history which enable students to understand the Russian language in context. The companion website to this course offers a wealth of resources and activities for both instructors and learners.The flexible, modular structure of the V Puti course is designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of Russian programs and learners at intermediate or advanced level.

V Puti: Russian Grammar in Context is a multi-level textbook program for learners of Russian that develops proficiency across the four language skills while building intercultural knowledge and competence.The third edition of this highly successful program presents grammar, vocabulary, culture, music, film, and literature within the context of diverse Russian-speaking communities around the world. All of these components reinforce Russian culture and history, enabling students to understand the Russian language in context. V Puti now includes projects and other activities in each chapter that offer many more opportunities to practice and demonstrate communicative competence. The V Puti course also includes V Puti: Student Activities Manual and a companion website containing a wealth of resources and activities for both instructors and learners.The flexible, modular structure of V Puti: Russian Grammar in Context and the accompanying Student Activities Manual is designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of Russian programs and learners at intermediate or advanced level.

V Puti: Russian Grammar in Context is a multi-level textbook program for learners of Russian that develops proficiency across the four language skills while building intercultural knowledge and competence.The third edition of this highly successful program presents grammar, vocabulary, culture, music, film, and literature within the context of diverse Russian-speaking communities around the world. All of these components reinforce Russian culture and history, enabling students to understand the Russian language in context. V Puti now includes projects and other activities in each chapter that offer many more opportunities to practice and demonstrate communicative competence. The V Puti course also includes V Puti: Student Activities Manual and a companion website containing a wealth of resources and activities for both instructors and learners.The flexible, modular structure of V Puti: Russian Grammar in Context and the accompanying Student Activities Manual is designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of Russian programs and learners at intermediate or advanced level.

V Puti: Student Activities Manual is an integral part of the V Puti course and is designed for use alongside V Puti: Russian Grammar in Context. The structure matches the main textbook and provides a wealth of exercises and activities, either for class use or homework. This third edition offers a wider variety of exercises and activities which incorporate more recent language pedagogies.This highly successful program assists in the development of learners’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills by presenting realistic settings, situations, and contexts. It consists of 12 chapters offering conversational exercises, various readings (biographies, poems, literature, and historical texts), and grammatical explanations and practice. All of these components reinforce Russian culture and history which enable students to understand the Russian language in context. The companion website to this course offers a wealth of resources and activities for both instructors and learners.The flexible, modular structure of the V Puti course is designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of Russian programs and learners at intermediate or advanced level.

Venäjä ilman rajoja. Osa 2. KielioppiKolmeosainen sarjaVenäjä ilman rajoja on suunniteltu 13-16 vuotiaille lapsille, jotka asuvat Venäjän ulkopuolella. Tämä on hyvin kattava ja monipuolinen opetusohjelma venäjän kielen opettamiseen, jota voi käyttää sekä venäjän kielen tunneilla että myös itsenäisessä opiskelussa. Sarjan tekijät ovat alan asiantuntijat, joilla on pitkä kokemus ulkomailla asuvien venäläisten lasten opettamisessa. Huom! Kirjan kaikki osat myydään erikseen.5. painos

Opiskelemme opettamaan. Teoreettisia ja käytännöllisiä neuvoja.

The phenomenon of case has long been a central topic of study in linguistics. While the majority of the literature so far has been on the syntax of case, semantics also has a crucial role to play in how case operates. This book investigates the relationship between semantics and case-marking in the languages of the world, exploring a range of phenomena in which case-assignment is affected by (or affects) meaning. By bringing together data from a wide range of languages, representing different language families, a cross-linguistic picture emerges of the correlation between case and meaning. Different approaches to the phenomena are considered, including both syntactic and semantic analyses, and the question is raised as to whether case can be treated as meaningful, ultimately helping us shed light on the broader connections between grammar and meaning and, moreover, grammar and the human cognition.

This highly successful program assists in the development of all the language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) by presenting realistic settings, situations, and contexts. It consists of 12 chapters and can be used in an intermediate or advanced Russian course. V Puti offers conversational exercises, various readings (biographies, poems, literature and historical texts) and grammatical explanations and practice. All of these components reinforce Russian culture and history which enable the students to understand the Russian language in context.

The phenomenon of case has long been a central topic of study in linguistics. While the majority of the literature so far has been on the syntax of case, semantics also has a crucial role to play in how case operates. This book investigates the relationship between semantics and case-marking in the languages of the world, exploring a range of phenomena in which case-assignment is affected by (or affects) meaning. By bringing together data from a wide range of languages, representing different language families, a cross-linguistic picture emerges of the correlation between case and meaning. Different approaches to the phenomena are considered, including both syntactic and semantic analyses, and the question is raised as to whether case can be treated as meaningful, ultimately helping us shed light on the broader connections between grammar and meaning and, moreover, grammar and the human cognition.

Verbal prefixes in Slavic languages remain an intricate and puzzling phenomenon, raising questions about whether their behavior is governed by a systematic pattern, and if their attachment is subject to any kind of uniform semantic system. Olga Kagan offers a new unified analysis of Russian verbal prefixes which combines a formal semantic approach with detailed discussion of data. The book addresses two vital issues, both of which play an important role in modern linguistic research: the role of scalarity in natural language and, more specifically, within the verbal domain; and Slavic verbal prefixation. Accessibly written and illustrated with numerous examples, Scalarity in the Verbal Domain is important reading for researchers and students of formal semantics, cognitive linguistics and Slavic languages.

Verbal prefixes in Slavic languages remain an intricate and puzzling phenomenon, raising questions about whether their behavior is governed by a systematic pattern, and if their attachment is subject to any kind of uniform semantic system. Olga Kagan offers a new unified analysis of Russian verbal prefixes which combines a formal semantic approach with detailed discussion of data. The book addresses two vital issues, both of which play an important role in modern linguistic research: the role of scalarity in natural language and, more specifically, within the verbal domain; and Slavic verbal prefixation. Accessibly written and illustrated with numerous examples, Scalarity in the Verbal Domain is important reading for researchers and students of formal semantics, cognitive linguistics and Slavic languages.

Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced is a vibrant and modern course designed to help students achieve advanced proficiency in Russian. Offering a flexible modular approach structured around contemporary themes, the course further develops reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills while also expanding the student’s cultural literacy. Key features include:Structured chapters presenting a wide assortment of readings that include blogs, forums and surveys as well as opinion pieces and commentaries. Each text is accompanied by assignments with increasing levels of difficulty.Authentic and up-to-date readings, video and audio excerpts covering a range of relevant social and cultural topics, including Demography, Youth Culture, Politics and Society, Economics and Globalization.Video clips from news programs that are used not only to develop listening comprehension but also introduce students to contemporary Russian society. Particular attention to helping students acquire advanced vocabulary and the ability to converse, discuss and argue about issues with extended paragraph-length discourse.Special focus on the development of strong listening and reading comprehension skills, ensuring that students understand the ideas and supporting details in narrative and descriptive texts and connected discourse.A free companion website at https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/138848 offering student and instructor video and audio resources, sample syllabi and tests as well as additional materials.Written by a highly experienced author team that has co-authored the first year Russian textbook Beginner’s Russian (2010) and the second-year textbook V Puti (2005). Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced will be an essential resource for undergraduate students in their third and fourth year of Russian language study. It is also suitable for heritage learners of Russian who have mastered literacy and are familiar with the grammatical structure of Russian.

The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative complements—the genitive of negation and the intensional genitive. The author contends that these variants are manifestations of the same phenomenon, and thus require an integrated analysis. Further, that the choice of case is sensitive to factors that fuse semantics and pragmatics, and that the genitive case is assigned to objects denoting properties at the same time as they lack commitment to existence. Kagan’s subtle analysis accounts for the complex relations between case-marking and other properties, such as definiteness, specificity, number and aspect. It also reveals a correlation between the genitive case and the subjunctive mood, and relates her overarching subject matter to other instances of differential object-marking.

Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced is a vibrant and modern course designed to help students achieve advanced proficiency in Russian. Offering a flexible modular approach structured around contemporary themes, the course further develops reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills while also expanding the student’s cultural literacy. Key features include:Structured chapters presenting a wide assortment of readings that include blogs, forums and surveys as well as opinion pieces and commentaries. Each text is accompanied by assignments with increasing levels of difficulty.Authentic and up-to-date readings, video and audio excerpts covering a range of relevant social and cultural topics, including Demography, Youth Culture, Politics and Society, Economics and Globalization.Video clips from news programs that are used not only to develop listening comprehension but also introduce students to contemporary Russian society. Particular attention to helping students acquire advanced vocabulary and the ability to converse, discuss and argue about issues with extended paragraph-length discourse.Special focus on the development of strong listening and reading comprehension skills, ensuring that students understand the ideas and supporting details in narrative and descriptive texts and connected discourse.A free companion website at https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/138848 offering student and instructor video and audio resources, sample syllabi and tests as well as additional materials.Written by a highly experienced author team that has co-authored the first year Russian textbook Beginner’s Russian (2010) and the second-year textbook V Puti (2005). Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced will be an essential resource for undergraduate students in their third and fourth year of Russian language study. It is also suitable for heritage learners of Russian who have mastered literacy and are familiar with the grammatical structure of Russian.

The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative complements—the genitive of negation and the intensional genitive. The author contends that these variants are manifestations of the same phenomenon, and thus require an integrated analysis. Further, that the choice of case is sensitive to factors that fuse semantics and pragmatics, and that the genitive case is assigned to objects denoting properties at the same time as they lack commitment to existence. Kagan’s subtle analysis accounts for the complex relations between case-marking and other properties, such as definiteness, specificity, number and aspect. It also reveals a correlation between the genitive case and the subjunctive mood, and relates her overarching subject matter to other instances of differential object-marking.

Advanced Russian Through History is a Russian reader for students working towards advanced and superior level proficiency in Russian. The book consists of thirty-six chapters focusing on the history of Russia, from Kievan Rus' to the post-Soviet era. Each chapter is accompanied by a corresponding minilecture and related learning tasks on the Web. The learning tasks are designed to promote students' abilities to understand and produce argument in the style of scholarly discourse, both in speech and in writing.

Venäjä ilman rajoja. Osa 2. Kielioppi Kolmeosainen sarjaVenäjä ilman rajoja on suunniteltu 13-16 vuotiaille lapsille, jotka asuvat Venäjän ulkopuolella. Tämä on hyvin kattava ja monipuolinen opetusohjelma venäjän kielen opettamiseen, jota voi käyttää sekä venäjän kielen tunneilla että myös itsenäisessä opiskelussa. Sarjan tekijät ovat alan asiantuntijat, joilla on pitkä kokemus ulkomailla asuvien venäläisten lasten opettamisessa. Huom! Kirjan kaikki osat myydään erikseen. 6.painos

Venäjä ilman rajoja. Osa 3. KirjallisuusKolmeosainen sarjaVenäjä ilman rajoja on suunniteltu 13-16 vuotiaille lapsille, jotka asuvat Venäjän ulkopuolella. Tämä on hyvin kattava ja monipuolinen opetusohjelma venäjän kielen opettamiseen, jota voi käyttää sekä venäjän kielen tunneilla että myös itsenäisessä opiskelussa. Sarjan tekijät ovat alan asiantuntijat, joilla on pitkä kokemus ulkomailla asuvien venäläisten lasten opettamisessa. Huom! Kirjan osat myydään erikseen.

Cinema for Russian Conversation covers fourteen Russian language films in two volumes that are used as the basis for discussion and language acquisition, teaching vocabulary, strengthening oral and written skills, and as well as an introduction to Russian culture. The films (arranged in historical order) are selected to provide interesting viewing, key cultural information, and accessible language levels. Each chapter of the book is devoted to a single movie and includes aids for students watching the film, discussing and writing about the film, and understanding the film in a broader cultural context. Also included: vocabulary helpful to understanding and discussing the film; structured exercises in understanding the film once it has been viewed, especially for discussion in class; an accompanying reading for each film designed to provide perspective on the film itself.