Trends in Soviet Theoretical Linguistics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. The Typology of Morphological and Lexical Causatives

   • V. P. Nedyalkov, G. G. Silnitsky

   Pages 1-32

3. Towards a Linguistic ‘Meaning⇔Text’ Model

   • I. A. Mel’čuk

   Pages 33-57

4. Passive Constructions

   • V. S. Khrakovsky

   Pages 59-75

5. Derivational Structure of the Russian Lexicon

   • P. A. Soboleva

   Pages 77-103

6. On Deep Situations and Sentence Patterns

   • H. Rätsep

   Pages 105-122

7. Presuppositions and the Ordering of Messages

   • Haldur Õim

   Pages 123-134

8. Some Remarks on Comparative and Superlative Sentences in Estonian

   • Mati Erelt

   Pages 135-147

9. On the Logical Analysis of Russian Quantifier Adjectives

   • E. V. Padučeva

   Pages 149-172

10. Synonymy and Synonyms

    • Ju. D. Apresjan

    Pages 173-199

11. An Attempt at the Formal Definition of Case and Gender of the Noun

    • A. Gladkij

    Pages 201-230

12. On Models for A Syntax With Explicitly Differentiated Elements (D-SYNTAX)

    • Yu C. Lecomtsev

    Pages 231-250

13. The Genotype Language and Formal Semantics

    • S. K. Šaumjan

    Pages 251-333

14. Valency-Junction-Emphasis Relations as a Language for Text Description

    • Ju S. Martem’Janov

    Pages 335-388

15. Tentative Lexicographic Definitions for a Group of Russian Words Denoting Emotions

    • L. N. Iordanskaja

    Pages 389-410

16. Materials for an Explanatory Combinatory Dictionary of Modern Russian

    • Ju D. Apresjan, I. A. Mel’čuk, A. K. Žolkovskij

    Pages 411-438

17. Back Matter

    Pages 439-439

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o. Theoretical linguistics is a term not very often used in Soviet Linguistics. The terms 'structural linguistics', 'mathematical linguistics', 'applied lin­ guistics' (which, incidentally, has another meaning here than in other parts of the world) all may cover theoretical work in linguistics. In older days serious theoretical work was done under the heading 'machine translation'. Very often the need for a special term for theoretically oriented studies in linguistics does not even arise. Does this mean that there is no real theoretical linguistics in the Soviet Union? This would be, of course, a completely false conclusion. Some lin­ guists tend to identify theoretical linguistics with generative grammar. Though it might be true - and I am myself very much inclined to subscribe to this view - that generative grammar has been the most fruitful linguistic theory up to now, this does not justify, however, the above identification. Incidentally, as we shall see later on, generative grammar has not been left unnoticed in the Soviet Union either. There are different trends within theo­ retical linguistics, one of which is generative grammar. While generative grammar (though one can worry about the content of this notion for many. internal and external reasons) seems to be the mean theoretical trend in the United States and in Western Europe, it represents only one of the main trends in Soviet linguistics.

• Syntax
• grammar
• linguistics
• semantics
• theoretical linguistics
• russian

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