i-iv -- FOREWORD -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- PART ONE. BACKGROUND -- 1. PREVIOUS STUDIES OF RUSSIAN PREPOSITIONS -- 2. INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESENT INVESTIGATION -- PART TWO. DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL PREPOSITIONS AND CONSTRUCTIONS -- 3. SIMPLE PREPOSITIONS -- 4. DOUBLE PREPOSITIONS -- 5. ROOT PREPOSITIONS -- 6. SUFFIXED PREPOSITIONS -- 7. PREFIXED PREPOSITIONS -- 8. COMBINATION PREPOSITIONS -- 9. COMPARATIVE PREPOSITIONS -- 10. ADVERB PREPOSITIONS -- 11. GERUND PREPOSITIONS -- 12. SOME SPECIALIZED CONSTRUCTIONS WITH PREPOSITIONS -- PART THREE. SYNCHRONIC DESCRIPTION OF PREPOSITIONAL CATEGORIES -- Introduction -- 13. OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC AND OLD RUSSIAN (1000-1399): PERIOD OF THE STATUS QUO -- 14. MIDDLE RUSSIAN (1400-1699): PERIOD OF EMBRYONIC CHANGE -- 15. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1700-1799): PERIOD OF THE FIRST MAJOR SHIFTS -- 16. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1800-1899): PERIOD OF THE PREPOSITIONAL REVOLUTION -- 17. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1900-1964): PERIOD OF CONSOLIDATION AND EXPANSION -- 18. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF TEN CENTURIES (1000-1964): A MILLENNIUM OF RUSSIAN PREPOSITIONS -- PART FOUR. INTERPRETATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS -- 19. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PREPOSITIONS -- 20. THE CLASSIFICATION OF PREPOSITIONS -- APPENDICES -- 21. PRIMARY SOURCES -- 22. BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 23. NAME INDEX -- 24. INDEX OF PREPOSITIONS