Robert A Orr

Biographic Data

ID4212396
NAMERobert A Orr
GIVEN NAMESRobert A
FAMILY NAMEOrr
SIGNATUREORR R A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Ottawa
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX1

  • Lexicography Meets Cognitive Linguistics

    Robert A OrrARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers2010References: 2

    (ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.)Eugene Rivelis's book ... ('How is the Bilingual Dictionary Possible?' - hereafter ...) is an ambitious work that is packed with detail. Its main objective is the application of cognitive linguistics to lexicography /lexicology in a bilingual dictionary. The book consists of a one-page abstract in English and another in Russian; an introduction; and four lengthy chapters: ... 35-76), ... (pp. 77-1…

  • A Russian-German Dictionary of Hunting and Related Fauna

    Robert A OrrARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers2007Cited by: 2

    In today's political and social climate, the title of the work being reviewed here Jagdworterbuch Russisch-Deutsch (hereafter JRD) may put off some readers. If so, this is a pity, as its author, Irmgard Lorenz, has put together a useful little compilation, with items which will undoubtedly pose a great deal of interest to a variety of readers and prove useful for elucidating obscure terms in literature and specialist texts (p. 9). Tsarist Russia,…

  • The Languages of the Former Soviet Republics

    Robert A Orr, Gary C FouseARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2001

    Chapter 1 On Language Chapter 2 Ukraine: The Little Russians Chapter 3 Belarus: The White Russians Chapter 4 Moldova: The Soviet Union's Romance Language Chapter 5 Estonia: A Touch of Scandinavia Chapter 6 Latvia: Between Germany and Russia Chapter 7 Lithuania: The Spinning Wheel Chapter 8 Azerbaijan: Between Turkey and Iran Chapter 9 Armenia: Ancient People, Ancient Language Chapter 10 Georgia: The Birthplace of Rustaveli and Stalin Chapter 11 U…

  • A Lexicographical Tradition Continues

    Robert A OrrARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers2000References: 1

    Fascicle I of this new dictionary (hereinafter ESJS) first appeared in 1989. Indicating that ...in the Indo-European etymological literature Old Church Slavonic material is the most frequently cited comparative Slavic material [1989:1; translation mine RAO] the authors announced that their work sought to fill the need for an etymological dictionary of Old Church Slavonic (OCS). Many available dictionaries of OCS, e.g., those by Sadnik and Aitzetm…

  • Evolutionary Biology and Historical Linguistics

    Robert A OrrARTICLEDiachronica1999

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  • The Sequence of the Fall of Final Consonants in Common Slavic

    Robert A OrrARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers1997References: 5

    (1997). The Sequence of the Fall of Final Consonants in Common Slavic: 1) *-T 2) *-N 3) *-S or 1) *-N 2) *-T 3) *-S? Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 39, Canadian Contributions to the XII International Congress of Slavists, Kraków, 1998, pp. 449-484

  • La Slavistica in Italia

    Robert A OrrARTICLEHistoriographia Linguistica1996

  • Report on the Xlth International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava, 31 August - 7 September 1993

    Robert A OrrARTICLEDiachronica1994

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  • More on Borrowings

    Robert A OrrARTICLEDiachronica1993

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