56th VINOGRADOV READINGS

The article describes the content of the papers read at the regular 56th Vinogradov Readings at Moscow State University. The reports contained substan tiation of the relevance of V.V. Vinogradov’s ideas for modern Russian linguistics. The main attention is paid in synchronic terms to word formation, syntax and grammatical analysis of the text, and in diachronic terms, to grammar and syntac tic functions of verb forms.