SHOULD ACTIVE PROCESSES IN THE GRAMMAR OF MODERN RUSSIAN BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN TEACHING RFL?
The teachers of Russian as a foreign language may encounter difficulties in their work in connection with the changes which appear in ever greater numbers in the grammar of Russian in the last decades. The author proposes a kind of scientific foundation for determining which of these processes should be taken into account in teaching Russian and which should be ignored. The following criteria are introduced: a) the stability of the phenomenon at issue (its prominence over a historically significant period of language development); b) its dynamics, or evidence that facts of a certain kind are gradually accumulating; c) the establishment of a particular stage the process is going through at the moment of study by the reactions of speakers of standard Russian to this or that innovation. The paper is particularly concerned with the declension of numerals, the rise of perfective active future participles, and the confusion of inflections of the genitive and prepositional cases in nouns.