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The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth International Symposium Russian Grammar: System–Usus–Language Variation, from September 22 to 24, 2021, at the University of Potsdam (Germany). The selected essays tackle the issues that arise when Russian Grammar meets new linguistic paradigms (such as corpus linguistics) and new challenges (such as heritage languages). The relevant findings are discussed with a particular focus on an updated version of the 1980 Academy grammar of Russian.
This collection of essays is dedicated to Alan Timberlake, Professor Emeritus
at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and Special Lecturer in the Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University (New York,
USA), on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
As the symposium was held online, more than two hundred participants,
speakers and listeners alike, from Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Armenia,
Turkey, Germany, Finland, Italy, the USA, Israel, Korea and China, were able to
attend. The symposium was the fifth in a series of annual “Russian Grammar”
symposia. The previous ones were held at the Pushkin Institute of Russian Language
(Moscow, 2016), the University of Helsinki (Helsinki 2017), St. Petersburg
State University (St. Petersburg, 2018) and K. D. Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogical
University (Yaroslavl, 2019).
In the virtual space of Potsdam, representatives of various academic schools
and communities discussed theoretical and practical aspects of studying and
teaching Russian grammar. The discussions at the previous symposia had focused
on the project of a new type of Academy grammar, Russian Grammar 4.0 (Moscow,
2016), the description, teaching and testing of the same (Helsinki, 2017), the
structural organization of language and processes of language functioning (St. Petersburg,
2018)