Week Class Day Date Topic
01 01 Thursday September 27 Course goals, perequisites. Basic notions. Language functions. Speech. Text. Pragmatics. Register. Dialect. Style. Adjustment. Variation & change. Literacy, norm, & tradition. Diaspora. (Non-)standard language. Structural description. 
01 02 Tuesday October 2 Typology. Form & Meaning. Lexicon & grammar. Modules. Sounds. Phonology. Structures: Words. Stems and endings. Inflexional and derivational morphology. Syllables. Word and sentence prosody. Parts of speech. Sentence, utterance, text. 
02 03 Thursday October 4 Writing Russian - Speaking Russian - Describing Russian. The Russian alphabet. Transcription & transliteration.
02 04 Tuesday October 9 A phonetic profile of Russian. Syllable structure. Consonants. Vowels. Prosody.
03 05 Thursday October 11 Russian stress: segmental and supersegmental phonology. 
03 06 Tuesday October 16 Segmental phonology of Russian
04 07 Thursday October 18 Abstractions in Russian morphophonemics: /e/~/o/ and /V/~zero
04 08 Tuesday October 23 Russian stress and grammatical categories
05 09 Thursday October 25 Nominal paradigms and inflexion: subcategories of nouns. Gender. Number. Case.
05 10 Tuesday October 30 Noun paradigms.
06 11 Thursday November 1 Morphological derivation: adjectives. Long & short forms. Stress. Noun - Adjective - Verb. Modifier - Head. Apposition - Agreement - Government. Phrase structure. Boundaries.
06 12 Tuesday November 6 Pronouns.
07 13 Thursday November 8 Verb paradigms.
07 14 Tuesday November 13 Verbal inflexional categories
08 15 Thursday November 15 Derivational morphology
08 16 Tuesday November 20 Derivational morphology
holiday holiday Thursday November 22 holiday
09 17 Tuesday November 27 Sentences and utterances: textual cohesion, colloquial speech. Russian syntax: typological survey. Sentence types. Word order. Referential devices.
09 18 Thursday November 29 Simple sentences.Co-ordination and subordination.
10 19 Tuesday December 04 Special topics.
10 20 Thursday December 06 Review and discussion.