Russian Peasant Letters include a collection of letters exchanged between members of the Stafanovs/Zhernakovs family, which represent an invaluable primary source for studying dialectal speech typical of the Vyatka region in the second half of the 19th century. Most of the letters were addressed to Yokoyama's grandfather Vasiliy Zhernakov, who in 1881, at the age of 17, left home in the former Vyatka Province for Siberia to earn money and eventually became a successful merchant and philanthropist. Yokoyama recognized that this is a valuable source for studying the language and economic conditions of common people in Russia in the late 19th century. The first volume contains original facsimiles of the letters with comments on phonological and orthographic variations; and their translation into modern Russian with comments on grammar and meaning of some words. The second volume provides the English translation of these letters with practical cultural comments, explaining different farming terms or relationships within the family. Yokoyama's study is important both linguistically, presenting the original north-eastern dialectal speech of peasants in the 19th century, and historically, showing the real struggles of peasants striving for upward mobility in pre-revolutionary Russia. Yokoyama conducted a thorough linguistic analysis of the language of the letters, covering such aspects as phonology, word change, word order, syntax, discourse, pragmatics, poetic aspects and variations . However, historiographers may find the historical part of research incomplete, but still a valuable source for research on life of Russian peasants in the 19th century. Books authored 1980 Studies in Russian Functional Syntax (Harvard Studies in Syntax and Semantics III, Part II). Harvard University Linguistics Department: Cambridge, MA. 328 pp. 1986 Discourse and Word Order. Benjamins: Amsterdam-Philadelphia. 361 pp. 2008 Russian Peasant Letters: Texts and Contexts. 2 vols. Verlag Otto Harrassowitz: . 983 pp. Books edited 1990 Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics, vol. 1. Slavic Linguistics Colloquium: . 360 pp. 1993 Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics, vol. 2. Slavic Linguistics Colloquium: . 265 pp. 1995 Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics, vol. 3. Slavic Linguistics Colloquium: . 242 pp. Articles 1981 “On sentence-coordination in Russian: a functional approach” in Papers from the Seventeenth Regional Meeting. Linguistic Society, Chicago, 431-439. 1983 “V zaščitu zapretnyx deepričastij (The case for dangling participles)”, in M.S. Flier (ed.), American Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of Slavists, vol. I, Linguistics. Slavica, Columbus, OH, 373-381. 1986a “Lexical frequency and its implications: the case of Contemporary Edited Russian”. Slavic