Zur Erklärung und Modellierung diachroner Wortbildungsprozesse (anhand russischersubstantivischer Neologismen) by H. Jachnow; R. Jäpel; H.-J. Kemper; I. Knoop; P. L. W.Koch; A. Marsall; G. Matzullat; T. Özbey; E. Zekan; F. Fried; M. Job; J. ÖzbeyReview by: Gerald StoneThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Oct., 1981), p. 636Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4208423 .

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636 THE SLAVONIC REVIEW

SHORTER NOTICES

Jachnow, H., Japel, R., Kemper, H.-J., Knoop, I., Koch, P. L. W., Marsall, A., Matzullat, G. Ozbey, T., Zekan, E. (in collaboration with Fried, F., Job, M., Ozbey, J.). Zur Erkldrung und Modellierung diachroner Wortbildungsprozesse (anhand russischer substantivischer Neologis- men). Slavistische Beitrage, vol. 136. Verlag Otto Sagner, Munich, I980. 230 Pp. Bibliography. Indexes.

THIs book is not incomprehensible, but the effort needed to understand it is probably not economic. It sets out to analyse the formation of some of the words in N. Z. Kotelova and Ju. S. Sorokin's Novye slova i zna6enija (Mos- COW, I971), using the applicative generative model of S. K. gaumjan as modified by H. Jachnow. Fundamental is the notion that derived words have deep structures which may be expressed as sentences. Therefore, every such word has a deep structure containing at least NP1 and VP. Thus, for example, the sentence underlying the word osemenator 'seminator' (p. 48) is lico osemenjaet (X), which may be written as NP1 + VP + (NP2). There are, however, many cases of underlying ambiguity.

Use is made of I04 separate semantic markers or derivatemes ('human activity', 'air', 'agriculture', 'animal', and so on) under which we find lists of derivatives, the surface units by means of which derivations are realized, and formulae expressing their underlying structures. Thus, about three-quarters of the text (some I6o pages) is written in cipher; only the introductory chapters and part of the conclusions are in clear. Oxford GERALD STONE

Tulloch, John. Chekhov -A Structuralist Study. Macmillan, London, Basingstoke, I980. Xi + 225 pp. Notes. Index. ?I.500.

FEAR not: if this study were re-titled 'a realist study' or 'a historical study', not a word would need to be altered. Its structuralism is not so much a foundation as a lean-to. The thesis really emphasizes the roots of Chekhov's writings in his medical and ecological interests and, taking issue with most contemporary critics, in an optimistic, evolutionary view of Russian society in the late nineteenth century. Such a stance predestines the author to much that is wrong-headed in his view of history, arbitrary in his view of inspiration and bloody-minded in his reading of the texts. But it also makes valuable corrective points and, however violently one disagrees with the approach and conclusions, there is no doubt that it is cogently argued and readably expressed.

John Tulloch comes to the subject as a sociologist, equipped with a fluent command of semiological terms and concepts and ready illustrations of their applications to Racine or Mazzoni. Once his admirable chapter 'Struc- turalism and the Sociology of Knowledge' is over, he leaps back to a classic historicism. Much of what he has to say about the Russian medical profession's 'socialization' is valid and to the point. But the second half

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