Russian Surnames by Unbegaun, Boris Ottokar - 1972

London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972. Near Fine condition in a Good only dust jacket. The jacket is intact, but soiled/stained. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Two appendixes. Bibliography. Index of Surnames. Index of Surname-Endings. Bound in the original blue cloth stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "Professor Unbegaun's pioneering work (no similar study exists in any language) describes the modern Russian surname system from the morphological point of view, with special attention to stress and to semantic and historical aspects. It covers not only thousands of purely Russian surnames, but also the whole range of Russianized names of both Slavonic and non-Slavonic origin, i.e. Ukrainian, White Russian, Polish, Western European, Baltic, Finnic, Jewish, Armenian, Georgian, Oriental,… Read More