Bücher der Reihe Studies in the Modern Russian Language

This book, originally published in 1970, examines the aspect - the relationship between imperfective and perfective verbs - found in the Russian language. The author presents a total picture of aspect in the Russian language which will be of practical interest to advanced students of Russian, and also contributed to the theoretical study of aspect as a grammatical category.

This study is concerned with element order in written literary Russian, a study usually known as word order, a term which is slightly misleading in that it is concerned not only with the order of individual words, but with the order of various groupings of words. In this, the only book in English devoted to the subject, Dr Bivon examines both types of order.