Three Bells Past Midday and Other Linguistic Puzzles

 This book presents linguistic puzzles from a variety of languages. Solving these puzzles does not require specialized knowledge, as most readers are unlikely to be familiar with such languages as Swedish and Georgian, let alone Dyirbal and Northern Straits Salish. However, there is a solution to every problem, and through logical reasoning, readers can discern the structure of each unfamiliar language and how it differs from Russian. Each problem is accompanied by hints, a detailed solution, and an afterword that thoroughly discusses the language phenomenon in question. The content of this book was previously published on the Elements popular science website, but it has been revised and expanded for this publication.

Moscow: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2022.