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Russian Declensional Morphemes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

George L. Trager
George L. Trager*
Affiliation:
Foreign Service Institute
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The purpose of this article is twofold: to examine the various patterns of declension found in Russian and establish the morphemes in them; and, by this presentation, to exemplify a possible method of morphemic analysis.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 29 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1953 , pp. 326 - 338
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Copyright © 1953 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 George L. Trager and Henry Lee Smith Jr., Outline of English structure 53 ff., esp. §§2-2.13 (SIL Occasional papers, No. 3, 1950).

1a For ‘zero’ the author prefers a more distinctive symbol, like that used in the work referred to above (fn. 1) : a zero with a diagonal crossbar slanting downward from left to right. This is replaced here, for typographical reasons, by an ordinary zero. For similar reasons, the symbol introduced below (§0.3) for ‘allomorph‘—a root sign with exponent q—is here used in place of the author's original choice, a root sign with exponent a.

2 Op.cit. 54-5.

3 David L. Olmsted, The morphophonemics of Russian noun inflection, SIL 9.1-6, esp. §§2.1-5 (1951).