Constructions Expressing Obligation, Necessity, Possibility or Potential
Verbs of Motion
Participles
Gerunds
The Adverb
The Preposition
Spatial Prepositions
Prepositions that Denote the Position of an Object in Relation to Another Object (Behind, in Front of, Below, on Top of etc.), or Movement to or from that Position
Prepositions that Denote Spatial Closeness to an Object, Movement Towards or Away from an Object, or Distance from an Object
Prepositions that Denote Along, Across, Through a Spatial Area
Prepositions that Denote Spatial Limit
Temporal Prepositions
The Use of Prepositions to Denote Action in Relation to Various Time Limits
Other Meanings
Other Important Meanings Expressed by Prepositions
The Conjunction
Co-ordinating Conjunctions
Subordinating Conjunctions
The Particle
Word Order
Glossary 533
Bibliography 540
Subject index 549
Word index 566
The third edition of Terence Wade's A ComprehensiveRussian Grammar, newly updated and revised, offers thedefinitive guide to current Russian usage. Provides the most complete, accurate and authoritative Englishlanguage reference grammar of Russian available on the market Includes up-to-date material from a wide range of literary andnon-literary sources, including Russian government websites Features a comprehensive approach to grammar exposition Retains the accessible yet comprehensive coverage of theprevious edition while adding updated examples and illustrations,as well as insights into several new developments in Russianlanguage usage since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
Terence Wade (1930-2005) was Professor Emeritus and Research Fellow in Russian Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He wrote 12 books, including Prepositions in Modern Russian (1985), Russian Etymological Dictionary (1996), The Russian Language Today (with Larissa Ryazanova-Clarke, 1999), and A Russian Grammar Workbook (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996).
David Gillespie is Professor of Russian at the University of Bath, UK, where he has taught Russian language and culture since 1985. Gillespie has published 8 books and more than 50 papers on modern Russian literature and ???lm.
"When Scottish scholar of the Russian language Wade(1930-2005) died, he was well advanced in plans but not actual workto update the grammar that had been highly successful in its 1992and 2000 editions. David Gillespie (Russian, U. of Bath) took upthe task, choosing not to try to guess what innovations Wade had inmind. Instead, he consolidated and added a few new sections,careful to preserve what he believes to be already the best Russiangrammar available. Beginning with an explanation of the Cyrillicalphabet and pronunciation, it works through all the parts ofspeech to word order." (Reference and Research Book News,February 2011)
Praise for the previous edition:
"With the additions of a helpful glossary and of a major section on word formation in the Russian noun, Terence Wade's Comprehensive Russian Grammar, already the best reference book of its kind, has, in its second edition, become even more useful for students of Russian." -Barry P. Scherr, Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College
"The coverage and fresh, interesting examples make Wade's grammar attractive . . . It will certainly be a standard reference work over the next fifty years." -The Slavonic Review
