3 Two morphologies, two stress systems, shaken, not stirred: Number marking on Russian borrowings in Kamas
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Alexandre Arkhipov
Abstract
The paper investigates strategies of adaptation of Russian loans in Kamas, an extinct Samoyedic (< Uralic) language of Southern Siberia. The study is based on the INEL Kamas Corpus which includes transcripts of all the audio data recorded from the last speaker between 1963 and 1970. Three main strategies of number marking on borrowed nouns are observed, two of them involving a Kamas plural marker attached to a Russian singular or plural form, and the third one directly employing the Russian plural. In a few more intricate cases, various adaptations take place, sometimes resulting in forms not expected in any of the interacting languages by itself. One minor strategy involves a stress shift in Russian singular form, another one uses an oblique stem coinciding with Russian genitive singular.
Abstract
The paper investigates strategies of adaptation of Russian loans in Kamas, an extinct Samoyedic (< Uralic) language of Southern Siberia. The study is based on the INEL Kamas Corpus which includes transcripts of all the audio data recorded from the last speaker between 1963 and 1970. Three main strategies of number marking on borrowed nouns are observed, two of them involving a Kamas plural marker attached to a Russian singular or plural form, and the third one directly employing the Russian plural. In a few more intricate cases, various adaptations take place, sometimes resulting in forms not expected in any of the interacting languages by itself. One minor strategy involves a stress shift in Russian singular form, another one uses an oblique stem coinciding with Russian genitive singular.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
- 1 The tonal marking of number on nominals in the Wagi dialect of Beria 1
- 2 Number inflection of English loanwords in Welsh 35
- 3 Two morphologies, two stress systems, shaken, not stirred: Number marking on Russian borrowings in Kamas 63
- 4 On co-plurals: Cross-linguistic evidence of competing pluralization strategies in the domain of nouns 107
- 5 Towards a typology of singulatives: Definition and overview of markers 155
- Index 183
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
- 1 The tonal marking of number on nominals in the Wagi dialect of Beria 1
- 2 Number inflection of English loanwords in Welsh 35
- 3 Two morphologies, two stress systems, shaken, not stirred: Number marking on Russian borrowings in Kamas 63
- 4 On co-plurals: Cross-linguistic evidence of competing pluralization strategies in the domain of nouns 107
- 5 Towards a typology of singulatives: Definition and overview of markers 155
- Index 183
