The phenomenon of Russian honorific agreement was first mentioned and used as evidence in Agreement Hierarchy by Greville Corbett (1979). Since then it has received little attention in the...Show moreThe phenomenon of Russian honorific agreement was first mentioned and used as evidence in Agreement Hierarchy by Greville Corbett (1979). Since then it has received little attention in the literature, unlike the other, more famous, cases of semantic agreement, e.g. hybrid nouns (Corbett 2015), pancake sentences (Enger 2004). This thesis is dedicated to investigating honorific agreement in Russian on the basis of independently collected data from the Russian National Corpus and a number of individually selected literary works.Show less
As a result of Russia's conduct in the Kosovo crisis, Russian foreign policy has changed. Russia's involvement in the crisis showed the flaws of its foreign policy conduct of the nineties. After...Show moreAs a result of Russia's conduct in the Kosovo crisis, Russian foreign policy has changed. Russia's involvement in the crisis showed the flaws of its foreign policy conduct of the nineties. After the Kosovo crisis, a new foreign policy line came into being, which aimed to strengthen the Russian state, to avoid the kind of failure Russia experienced in the Kosovo crisis.Show less
