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The dialect of Gammalsvenskby: Scandinavian-Slavonic language contact
P. 98–105.
Mankov A.
This paper deals with Slavonic lexical borrowings in the present-day dialect of Gammalsvenskby, a Swedish dialect spoken in Kherson province, Ukraine. The village of Gammalsvenskby was founded in 1782 by migrants from the island of Dagö (Hiiumaa). Now the dialect is highly endangered and requires urgent documentation. This paper describes the degree of structural assimilation of loanwords, distinctions between Russian and Ukrainian as donor languages, phonetics of loanwords (regularities in the reflection of sounds; suprasegmental features), grammar of loanwords (gender, inflection, word formation), semantic domains of loanwords. The material for this paper was obtained during fieldwork carried out by the author in the village.
Keywords: language contact
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Yakovleva A., Kosheliuk N., Moroz G., International Journal of Bilingualism 2025 P. 1–19
Aims and Research Questions: In this paper, we present a corpus-based study of preposition drop (p-drop) in the speech of Mari-Russian and Beserman-Russian bilinguals compared to the speech of Russian monolinguals. Based on data from spoken corpora, we demonstrate that the prepositions v ‘in’, k ‘to’, s ‘with’ are omitted in the speech of bilinguals ...
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Savelyev A., Вопросы языкового родства 2025 № 23/1-2 С. 137–167
This article represents the first part of a two-part study devoted to the analysis of Turkic loanwords of the Bulghar-Chuvash type in the Permic languages. In this part, general criteria are proposed for distinguishing Bulgharic borrowings within the corpus of Udmurt and Komi words of Turkic origin. In addition, a “core” layer of Bulghar-Chuvash loanwords ...
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Shvedova E., Koryakov Y., Elizaveta Zabelina, Journal of Language Relationship 2025 Vol. 23 No. 3–4 P. 207–275
This study documents and analyzes lexical data from four Christian North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic varieties: Mahmudi, Nudiz, Verin Dvin Urmi, and Urmia Urmi, focusing on the previously undescribed Mahmudi and Nudiz. We provide correspondences from these lects for an extended 226-item basic vocabulary list collected for this study with etymologies, cognates from earlier Aramaic, and loanword sources. ...
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Grishanova A., Russian linguistics 2025 Vol. 49 Article 10
The purpose of this study is to present a summary of morphosyntactic variation and a detailed analysis of the phenomenon of preposition drop in the Russian speech of Chuvash bilinguals. Specifically, I investigate what underlying factors might condition the variation. I conduct a qualitative analysis of the data extracted from the corpus of Russian spoken ...
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Khachaturyan M., Moroz G., Mamy P., Journal of Sociolinguistics 2025 Vol. 29 No. 4 P. 268–284
This paper contributes to research on the awareness of grammatical variability through a study of variation in reflexivity marking in Mano under the influence of Kpelle, both indigenous languages of Guinea. The speakers of these languages are found to be sensitive to contact-induced grammatical variation in reflexivity, which manifests via variation in comprehension patterns and, ...
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Naccarato C., Moroz G., International Journal of Bilingualism 2026 Vol. 30 No. 2 P. 358–379
Aims and Research Questions: The paper investigates variation in numeral constructions in the L2 Russian speech of bilinguals from different regions of Russia. The main research questions are the following: What factors prompt variation in this domain of grammar? Can we argue that non-standard marking is motivated by contact?
Methodology: We conduct a corpus-based study ...
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Khachaturyan M., Moroz G., Vydrin V. et al., Studies in Language 2025 Vol. 49 No. 4 P. 823–857
In this paper, we address valency patterns in seven Mande languages with various degrees of genealogical proximity. Our study is based on the BivalTyp questionnaire focusing on 130 two-place predicates (Say 2020). While belonging to two distinct genetic groupings, two languages of the set, i.e. Mano (Southern Mande) and Kpelle (Southwestern Mande), are in intense ...
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Khachaturyan M., Moroz G., Mamy P., Linguistics 2024 Vol. 62 No. 5 P. 1225–1250
This paper explores variation in the patterns of reflexivity marking in the Mano language and possible influence from the Kpelle language by using an experimental design with a picture questionnaire. While Kpelle does not have a morphological distinction between reflexive and basic pronouns, the Mano variety spoken by Mano-dominant individuals does possess such a distinction ...
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Häberl C. G., Kashintseva K., Loesov S., , in: Language Diversity in Iran: New Texts and Perspectives from Non-Iranian Languages.: De Gruyter, 2024. Ch. 8 P. 285–358.
This survey offers a brief grammatical description of the Turoyo language spoken in the southeast of Turkey. Ṭuroyo is a largely unwritten Eastern Neo-Aramaic language, which derives its name from the Tur Abdin region. The Tur Abdin region, the ancient home of Ṭuroyo and the last remaining stronghold of Aramaic in the Republic of Türkiye, ...
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De Gruyter, 2024.
The current companion will offer a survey of the Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Turkic languages in contact with Iranian languages. Comparatively few of Iran's minority languages are well-documented or even widely known outside of a small cadre of specialists. A volume that organizes sketches of the non-Iranian languages of Iran offers a unique perspective on ...
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Ter-Avanesova A., Daniel M., Linguistic Variation 2023 No. 1 P. 28–74
In this paper, we provide a survey of the diachronic development of the Russian second genitive (Gen2). As endpoints of this development, we consider data from Russian dialects representing different dialect groups. Assumedly, the expansion of Gen2 started off as ‘recycling’ of the genitive of a declension type that became obsolete already in the pre-written ...
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Zakirova A., Родной язык: лингвистический журнал 2022 № 1 С. 5–49
This paper provides a survey of number agreement in the East Caucasian languages and languages of other language families in contact with East Caucasian. For a sample of 59 idioms I considered number agreement strategies of adjectives in the attributive position and established what factors license agreement in these idioms. Besides, I assessed the weight ...
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Maisak T., Journal of Endangered Languages 2023 Vol. 13 No. 22 P. 55–72
The paper presents an overview of Udi, a Nakh-Daghestanian language of the Lezgic branch and an indigenous language of Azerbaijan. After a general introduction about the Udi people and their language, I focus on the history of the study of Udi and Caucasian Albanian, on the development of modern writing systems for Udi, as well ...
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Lyavdansky A., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2023 Т. 19 № 1 С. 193–229
On the basis of field and corpus data, preliminary observations are made about the form and function of serial verb constructions (SVC) in the varieties of Christian Urmi Neo-Aramaic. Serial verb constructions are considered adopting
“wide” understanding of this phenomenon, represented by the works of Plungyan, Aikhenvald and Andrason among many others. Big amount of data ...
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Berzon E., Maksim Kalinin, Sergey Koval et al., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 2 P. 391–402
This paper offers an interpretation of an insufficiently understood verb form in the Neo-Babylonian letter OIP 114, 17:8, 29, thereby clarifying its contents. The word in question is shown to be an Aramaic verb form. This interpretation is supported by observations on the orthography and phonology of early Neo-Babylonian. It follows from the study that ...
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Макарцев М. М., Кикило Н. И., Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии 2022 Т. 17 № 1-2 С. 120–141
This article puts into academic circulation the materials of the little-described migrational Shtokavian dialects in the Shijak (Durrës) and Myzeqe (Fier, the villages of Rreth Libof-sha, Hamil, etc.) areas collected during a linguistic expedition in July and August 2021. The Sandžak region (Novi Pazar, Tutin and Sjenica, modern Republic of Serbia), where the Shtokavian Novi ...
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Duntsov A. N., Häberl C., Loesov S., Word 2022 Vol. 68 No. 4 P. 359–394
Modern Western Aramaic is one of the most critically endangered Aramaic languages, and the only extant member of the Western Aramaic sub-family. Its speakers are among the few who have not migrated away from their original territory, but the Syrian Civil War (2011–present) has accelerated its endangerment and resulted in the abandonment of one of ...
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Ростов н/Д: Издательство Южного федерального университета, 2023.
During the congress, leading scientists, university professors, and young researchers presented the results of their work in the field of the Spanish language and culture, history, economics and political science of Spanish-speaking countries, in the field of teaching Spanish as a foreign language. ...
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Grishchenko A., Studi Slavistici 2022 Т. 19 № 1 С. 285–300
The article raises the question of language items (words or phrases) which could be the markers of a textual relationship between Biblical translations and their originals, on the examples of two East Slavonic texts created presumably in the 15th century in the Ruthenian lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The article is based on ...
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