2. INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESENT INVESTIGATION

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. FOREWORD 5
3. TABLE OF CONTENTS 9
4. LIST OF TABLES 11
5. PART ONE. BACKGROUND
6. 1. PREVIOUS STUDIES OF RUSSIAN PREPOSITIONS 15
7. 2. INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESENT INVESTIGATION 41
8. PART TWO. DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL PREPOSITIONS AND CONSTRUCTIONS
9. 3. SIMPLE PREPOSITIONS 59
10. 4. DOUBLE PREPOSITIONS 89
11. 5. ROOT PREPOSITIONS 97
12. 6. SUFFIXED PREPOSITIONS 111
13. 7. PREFIXED PREPOSITIONS 139
14. 8. COMBINATION PREPOSITIONS 189
15. 9. COMPARATIVE PREPOSITIONS 201
16. 10. ADVERB PREPOSITIONS 215
17. 11. GERUND PREPOSITIONS 221
18. 12. SOME SPECIALIZED CONSTRUCTIONS WITH PREPOSITIONS 227
19. PART THREE. SYNCHRONIC DESCRIPTION OF PREPOSITIONAL CATEGORIES
20. Introduction 255
21. 13. OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC AND OLD RUSSIAN (1000–1399): PERIOD OF THE STATUS QUO 257
22. 14. MIDDLE RUSSIAN (1400-1699): PERIOD OF EMBRYONIC CHANGE 261
23. 15. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1700–1799): PERIOD OF THE FIRST MAJOR SHIFTS 265
24. 16. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1800–1899): PERIOD OF THE PREPOSITIONAL REVOLUTION 269
25. 17. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1900-1964): PERIOD OF CONSOLIDATION AND EXPANSION 275
26. 18. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF TEN CENTURIES (1000–1964): A MILLENNIUM OF RUSSIAN PREPOSITIONS 287
27. PART FOUR. INTERPRETATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
28. 19. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PREPOSITIONS 305
29. 20. THE CLASSIFICATION OF PREPOSITIONS 321
30. APPENDICES
31. 21. PRIMARY SOURCES 337
32. 22. BIBLIOGRAPHY 347
33. 23. NAME INDEX 361
34. 24. INDEX OF PREPOSITIONS 363