Abstract

Russian is a language with relatively free word order. Grammatical functions, such as subject and object, are identified by case marking, rather than by position. Thus, for example, in the following sentence1 (1) Книгу он читaл. Knigu on cital book[ACC] he[NOM] read He read (a/the) book. the two NPs may occur in either order in many different syntactic positions; the object is marked with Accusative and the subject with Nominative case. Particular morphological realizations of the Nominative, Accusative, or any other case, differ from one declension class to another.

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