Nuovi orientamenti e strumenti metodologici nella linguistica russa

The authors focuse on the recent evolution of Russian Language which has been challenging theoretical as well as applied Russian Linguistics over the last two decades . The most important schools and authors of contemporary Russian linguistics are presented, and special attention is paid to the way in which lexicography and lexicology have registered the massive changes which have occurred in Russian language since perestrojka. The author describes the development of some important Linguistic schools, like the moskovskaja semantičeskaja škola and the studies about russkaja lingvističeskaja kartina mira. Furthermore there is a description of the National Corpus of Russian Language (available on the internet since 2004) and its possible applications in linguistic research and teaching of the Russian language.