Author: Institut russkogo i︠a︡zyka (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR)Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Russian Dialectology
Author: Institut russkogo i︠a︡zyka (Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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The Typology and Dialectology of Romani
Author: Yaron MatrasPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027236615
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Contributions to this collection focus on the unity and diversity of the language of the Roma (Gypsies), the only Indic language spoken exclusively in Europe. Properties discussed include the distinct inflectional and derivational patterns applied to Asian and European lexical layers, the distribution of inflectional, agglutinative, and analytic formation among syntactic categories, regularities in the ongoing shift from inflectional to analytic case formation, suppletion, aspects of syntactic convergence, and patterns of morphological transitivization and de-transitivization (causatives and passives). These phenomena are considered in the light of contemporary discussions on language universals, with reference to a variety of different approaches including Prague School Typology, Functional Sentence Perspective, Functional Grammar, functional-pragmatic typology, and general grammaticalization theory. Chapters partly adopt a comparative approach covering all major dialects of the language, and are partly devoted to single-dialect corpuses. Special attention is given to the Czech/Slovak and Hungarian varieties, to previously undescribed dialects from Bulgaria and Turkey, to codified varieties in Macedonia, and to the variety of dialects discussed in the popular works of the Victorian author George Borrow. An extensive Introduction outlines the principal morphosyntactic features of the language and provides a classification of Romani dialects, including an overview of those mentioned in the volume.
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Author: Diana ForkerPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 902726001X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
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.
The Soft Power of the Russian Language
Author: Arto MustajokiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429590350
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century
Author: Alexander D. NakhimovskyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498575048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through letters and stories that trace their tragic history. In 1900, there were 100,000,000 peasants in Russia, but by mid-century their language was no longer passed from parents to children, resulting in no speakers of the dialect left today. In this study, Alexander D. Nakhimovsky argues that for all the variability of local dialects there was an underlying unity in them, which derived from their old shared traditions and oral nature. Their unity is best manifested in word formation, syntax, phraseology, and discourse. Different social groups followed somewhat different paths through the maze of Soviet history, and peasants' path was one of the most painful. The chronological organization of the book and the analysis of powerful, concise, and simple but expressive language of peasant letters and stories culminate into an oral history of their tragic Soviet experience.
An Introduction to Ukrainian Dialectology
Author: Salvatore Del GaudioPublisher: Wiener Slawistischer Almanach - Sonderbände
ISBN: 9783631738122
Category : Ukrainian language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The book intends to render available to a wide range of students of Slavic languages, and particularly of Ukrainian, an outline of Ukrainian dialectology. The author presents the fascinating world of geographical variation of contemporary Ukrainian to all students of Slavic languages. A basic knowledge of Ukrainian dialects is likewise important to complete the theoretical and practical background of a Slavist, especially if focusing on Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian. It is also a valuable aid to a better understanding of diachronic and synchronic language processes, e.g. the Ukrainian-Russian mixed speech «surzyk».
A Bibliographical Guide to the Russian Language
Author: Boris Ottokar UnbegaunPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Russian language
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Russian Language
Author: Григорий Осипович ВинокурPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521079446
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This work traces the Russian language from its origins for the Common Slavonic to the twentieth century.
The Russian language and its dialects
Author: William Richard MorfillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
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