Russian ‘predicatives’ in L1 and L2 teaching syllabus

This short essay speculates possible strategies to be applied in the teaching syllabus of the so-called Russian 'predicatives', both for L1 and L2 learners, also in a comparative perspective with other languages. This class of words, mostly ignored in the Italian teaching programmes of Russian, could rightly represent an interesting topic of study, through comparisons (i) among formally identical structures, (ii) among different grammatical functions, (iii) with other foreign languages, using particular methods and investigating corpora.