Nikita Mixajlov: Tvoritel'nyj padež v russkom jazyke XVIII veka (Instru- mental case in eighteenth-century Russian)

Abstract

This book is a version of the PhD thesis defended by Nikita Mixajlov at the University of Uppsala in December 2012. It is written in Russian but includes a brief English summary at the end of the book (pp. 291– 96).

The author offers a very detailed description of the uses and variants of the instrumental case in the 18th-century Russian literary language. As the author states, it is based on the impressive amount of approximately 11,300 examples including an instrumental case, and 2,400 examples of other grammatical cases, from a specific corpus of forty authors belonging to different genres: poetry, drama, literary prose, letters, memoirs, and learned tracts.