On Presenting the Russian Verb

In his article Order of Presentation of Grammatical Structures the Teaching of Russian, Howard Aronson has some significant things to say about a neglected subject.' But one point which Aronson makes serves as the stimulus for this article. Although he recognizes that the ideal basic form of the verb from the linguistic point of view is the full-stem as described by Roman Jakobson his article Conjugation,2 Aronson adds that in presenting Russian to a beginning student, we cannot deal with such abstract constructs and that we must choose a form

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