This collection, the second in the series edited and
published under the auspices of the Center for the Study of Slavic Languages
and Literatures at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is devoted to problems
of Russian, Slavic, and general linguistics. It deals with various historical
stages of the Russian language as well as of other Slavic languages and
dialects. Special attentions is paid to Russian semantics, both at the level of
language and of speech (text). Certain relations between Slavic and non-Slavic
languages are discussed. The approaches vary from the traditionally descriptive
and empirical to the modern formal-theoretical and even meta-theoretical ones.
A special feature of the collection is the publication of a
few versions of the notorious Zaporozhian letter to the Turkish Sultan in the
originals, transliterations, and English translations, and their linguistic
analysis.
The volume is a result of a joint effort by scholars from
Israel, the U.S.S.R., and the U.S.A. It is intended for specialists in the
fields of Russian and Slavic linguistics, general linguistics, text
linguistics, language contacts and typology.