Patterns of Ellipsis in Russian Compound Noun Formations

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Examples cited have been taken from the following sources -- PART A. THE MORPHOLOGICAL AND SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE OF ATHEMATIC ABBREVIATED COMPOUNDS -- Introduction -- I. Non-Oblique Underlying Phrases of a Structure [X-Y] -- II. Non-Oblique Underlying Phrases of an Expanded [...X-Y] Structure -- III. Reformulated Oblique Underlying Phrases -- IV. Non-Reformulation of Oblique Complements -- V. Non-Compounded (Simple) Truncations -- Summary -- PART B. MODELS OF THEMATIC COMPOUND FORMATION -- Introduction -- I. Typology of Inherited Thematic Compound Formations in Modern Russian -- II. The Historical Basis of Thematic Compound Formation: Early Borrowings from Greek -- III. Borrowings from Western European Languages into Russian -- IV. Borrowed Compound Patterns in Twentieth Century Russian -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Athematic Partial Truncations -- Bibliography -- Index