Language Contact In The Territory Of The Former Soviet Union

Author : Diana Forker,Lenore A. Grenoble
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260017

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Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union by Diana Forker,Lenore A. Grenoble Pdf

The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles different case studies and systematically investigates the impact of Russian at all linguistic levels, from the lexicon to the domains of grammar to discourse, and with varying types of outcomes such as relatively rapid language shift, structural changes in a relatively stable contact situation, pidginization and super variability at the post-pidgin stage. The volume appeals to linguists studying language contact and contact-induced language change from a broad range of perspectives, who want to gain insight into how one of the largest languages in the world influences other smaller languages, but also experts of mostly minority languages in the sphere of the former Soviet Union.

Author : L.A. Grenoble
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780306480836

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Language Policy in the Soviet Union by L.A. Grenoble Pdf

Soviet language policy provides rich material for the study of the impact of policy on language use. Moreover, it offers a unique vantage point on the tie between language and culture. While linguists and ethnographers grapple with defining the relationship of language to culture, or of language and culture to identity, the Soviets knew that language is an integral and inalienable part of culture. The former Soviet Union provides an ideal case study for examining these relationships, in that it had one of the most deliberate language policies of any nation state. This is not to say that it was constant or well-conceived; in fact it was marked by contradictions, illogical decisions, and inconsistencies. Yet it represented a conscious effort on the part of the Communist leadership to shape both ethnic identity and national consciousness through language. As a totalitarian state, the USSR represents a country where language policy, however radical, could be implemented at the will of the government. Furthermore, measures (such as forced migrations) were undertaken that resulted in changing population demographics, having a direct impact on what is a central issue here: the very nature of the Soviet population. That said, it is important to keep in mind that in the Soviet Union there was a difference between stated policy and actual practice. There was no guarantee that any given policy would be implemented, even when it had been officially legislated.

Author : Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847690876

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Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries by Aneta Pavlenko Pdf

In the past two decades, post-Soviet countries have emerged as a contested linguistic space, where disagreements over language and education policies have led to demonstrations, military conflicts and even secession. This collection offers an up-to-date comparative analysis of language and education policies and practices in post-Soviet countries.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119485063

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The Handbook of Language Contact by Raymond Hickey Pdf

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers of different languages interact. Accessibly structured into three sections, The Handbook of Language Contact explores the role of contact studies within the field of linguistics, the value of contact studies for language change research, and the relevance of language contact for sociolinguistics. This authoritative volume presents original findings and fresh research directions from an international team of prominent experts. Thirty-seven specially-commissioned chapters cover a broad range of topics and case studies of contact from around the world. Now in its second edition, this valuable reference has been extensively updated with new chapters on topics including globalization, language acquisition, creolization, code-switching, and genetic classification. Fresh case studies examine Romance, Indo-European, African, Mayan, and many other languages in both the past and the present. Addressing the major issues in the field of language contact studies, this volume: Includes a representative sample of individual studies which re-evaluate the role of language contact in the broader context of language and society Offers 23 new chapters written by leading scholars Examines language contact in different societies, including many in Africa and Asia Provides a cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world The Handbook of Language Contact, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for researchers, scholars, and students involved in language contact, language variation and change, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and language theory.

Author : Edward Vajda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111378381

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The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia by Edward Vajda Pdf

The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia’s North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia. It provides in-depth descriptions of every first-order family of this vast area, with special emphasis on family-internal subdivision and dialectal differentiation. Individual chapters trace the origins and expansion of the region’s widespread pastoral-based language groups as well as the microfamilies and isolates spoken by northern Asia’s surviving hunter-gatherers. Separate chapters cover sparsely recorded languages of early Inner Eurasia that defy precise classification and the various pidgins and creoles spread over the region. Other chapters investigate the typology of salient linguistic features of the area, including vowel harmony, noun inflection, verb indexing (also known as agreement), complex morphologies, and the syntax of complex predicates. Issues relating to genealogical ancestry, areal contact and language endangerment receive equal attention. With historical connections both to Eurasia’s pastoral-based empires as well as to ancient population movements into the Americas, the steppes, taiga forests, tundra and coastal fringes of northern Asia offer a complex and fascinating object of linguistic investigation.

Author : Anja Behnke,Beáta Boglárka Wagner-Nagy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004684775

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Clause Linkage in the Languages of the Ob-Yenisei Area by Anja Behnke,Beáta Boglárka Wagner-Nagy Pdf

The volume explores clause-linkage strategies from a cross-linguistic perspective with an emphasis on asyndetic constructions. The data-driven approaches focus on areal differences and similarities in using non-finite verb forms in complex sentences in languages situated in Central and Western Siberia.

Author : Michael Kirkwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language planning
ISBN : UCAL:B4381408

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Language Planning in the Soviet Union by Michael Kirkwood Pdf

This work sets out to provide a short history of Soviet language planning and illustrates the implementation of Soviet policy with examples based on case studies of the Baltic Republics, Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldavia, Georgia and Uzbekistan.

Author : Lenore A. Grenoble,Jessica Kantarovich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257345

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Reconstructing Non-Standard Languages by Lenore A. Grenoble,Jessica Kantarovich Pdf

Focusing on language contact involving Russian, and the linguistic varieties that emerged from that contact in different social settings, this book analyzes issues and methodologies in reconstructing both the linguistic effects of language contact and the social contexts of usage. In-depth analyses of Odessan Russian, a southern Russian contact variety with Yiddish and Ukrainian elements, and Russian lexifier pidgins illustrate the reconstruction process, which involves making the most of all available documentation, particularly literature and stereotypical descriptions. Historical sociolinguistics of this kind straddles the fields of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and contact; this book brings together the methods and theories of these areas to show how they can result in a rich reconstruction of linguistic and socially-conditioned variation. We reconstruct the circumstances and social settings that produced this variation, and demonstrate how to reconstruct which variants were used by different types of speakers under different circumstances, and what kinds of social identities they indexed.

Author : Nataliya Levkovych
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110785517

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Susceptibility vs. Resistance by Nataliya Levkovych Pdf

The topic of the volume is the contrast between borrowable categories and those which resist transfer. Resistance is illustrated for the unattested emergence of grammatical gender, the negligible impact of English and Spanish on the number category in Patagonian Welsh, the reluctance of replicas to borrow English but. MAT-borrowing does not imply the copying of rules as the Spanish function-words in the Chamorro irrealis show. Chamorro and Tetun Dili look similar on account of their contact-induced parallels. The languages of the former USSR have borrowed largely identical sets of conjunctions from Russian, Arabic, and Persian to converge in the domain of clause linkage. Resistance against and susceptibility to transfer call for further investigations to the benefit of language-contact theory.

Author : Dr James Hughes,Gwendolyn Sasse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136342042

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Ethnicity and Territory in the Former Soviet Union by Dr James Hughes,Gwendolyn Sasse Pdf

The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991 removed a decades-long system of successful control of potential ethnic and regional conflict . The result was the eruption of numerous conflicts over state-building, some of which degenerated into violence and some of which were resolved or prevented by strategies of accommodation. This volume explores the common trends and differences in the responses of the new post-Soviet states to the problems of state-building in ethnically and regionally divided societies, focusing on the impact of ethnic and regional conflicts on post-communist transition and institutional development. The book will be essential reading for specialists and students alike who are interested in conflict regulation and post-Soviet politics.

Author : Arto Mustajoki,Ekaterina Protassova,Maria Yelenevskaya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429590351

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The Soft Power of the Russian Language by Arto Mustajoki,Ekaterina Protassova,Maria Yelenevskaya Pdf

Exploring Russian as a pluricentric language, this book provides a panoramic view of its use within and outside the nation and discusses the connections between language, politics, ideologies, and cultural contacts. Russian is widely used across the former Soviet republics and in the diaspora, but speakers outside Russia deviate from the metropolis in their use of the language and their attitudes towards it. Using country case studies from across the former Soviet Union and beyond, the contributors analyze the unifying role of the Russian language for developing transnational connections and show its value in the knowledge economy. They demonstrate that centrifugal developments of Russian and its pluricentricity are grounded in the language and education policies of their host countries, as well as the goals and functions of cultural institutions, such as schools, media, travel agencies, and others created by émigrés for their co-ethnics. This book also reveals the tensions between Russia’s attempts to homogenize the 'Russian world' and the divergence of regional versions of Russian reflecting cultural hybridity of the diaspora. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book will prove useful to researchers of Russian and post-Soviet politics, Russian studies, Russian language and culture, linguistics, and immigration studies. Those studying multilingualism and heritage language teaching may also find it interesting.

Author : Cornelius Hasselblatt,Beáta Wagner-Nagy
Publisher : Helmut Buske Verlag
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783967692778

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FInnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen Band 46 by Cornelius Hasselblatt,Beáta Wagner-Nagy Pdf

Originalia - Viviana Ballaera: Klasse(n) Geschmack! Kulinarischer Geschmack als Ausdruck sozialer Differenzierung in Helsinki - Anja Behnke: 'Clause chaining' im Ob-Jenissej Gebiet - Maria Brykina, Josefina Budzisch: If only Selkup had an optative ... (A corpus study of the lV-form in Selkup dialects) - Svetlana Edygarova: The Udmurt language between 1920 and 1950 - Ekaterina Georgieva: Syntactic correlates of (non-)finiteness in Udmurt - Beáta Wagner-Nagy, Susann Fischer: Word order in Selkup Diskussion und Kritik - Benjamin Schweitzer: Irmeli Hautamäki, Laura Piippo, Helena Sederholm (Hrsgg.): Avantgarde Suomessa. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura 2021 (Tietolipas 267)

Author : Marianne Bakró-Nagy,Johanna Laakso,Elena Skribnik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198767664

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The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages by Marianne Bakró-Nagy,Johanna Laakso,Elena Skribnik Pdf

This volume offers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment available today of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia. While there is a long history of research into these languages, much of it has been conducted within several disparate national traditions; studies of certain languages and topics are somewhat limited and in many cases outdated. The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the internal relations and diversity of the Uralic language family, including the outlines of its historical development, and the contacts between Uralic and other languages of Eurasia. The book is divided into three parts. Part I presents the origins and development of the Uralic languages: the initial chapters examine reconstructed Proto-Uralic and its divergence, while later chapters provide surveys of the history and codification of the three Uralic nation-state languages (Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian) and the Uralic minority languages from Baltic Europe to Siberia. This part also explores questions of endangerment, revitalization, and language policy. The chapters in Part II offer individual structural overviews of the Uralic languages, including a number of understudied minority languages for which no detailed description in English has previously been available. The final part of the book provides cross-Uralic comparative and typological case studies of a range of issues in phonology, morphology, syntax, and the lexicon. The chapters explore a number of topics, such as information structure and clause combining, that have traditionally received very little attention in Uralic studies. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in the Uralic languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.

Author : E. Glyn Lewis
Publisher : Hague : Mouton, 1972 [1973]
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : UOM:39015009313373

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Multilingualism in the Soviet Union by E. Glyn Lewis Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Harlig,Csaba Pléh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Sociolinguistics
ISBN : 3110145855

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When East Met West by Jeffrey Harlig,Csaba Pléh Pdf