| 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. |