Abstract
The most natural generative account of the Russian imperative requires its derivation from the nonpast stem, not from the 1948 Jakobsonian verb base, as heretofore in generative descriptions. The Jakobsonian base is most appropriately used as a verbal citation form, from which the required nonpast or past stem form can be predicted by stem-referencing rules. This study shows that it is possible to steer a middle course between the Scylla of Lightnerian phonology and the Charybdis of the Jakobsonian verb system and still produce a systematic description of a Russian verbal category.
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