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Russian verbal borrowings in Udmurt

  • Timofey Arkhangelskiy ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: October 24, 2019
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Abstract

In Udmurt, a Uralic language that has experienced long and extensive contact with the dominant Russian language, all four typologically relevant strategies of verbal borrowing are attested: direct and indirect insertion, light verbs, and paradigm insertion. This is unusual both cross-linguistically and for the Uralic family. The paper investigates these strategies and the factors that govern the choice between them. It turns out that, although free variation plays a major role in the distribution of strategies, there are also several important morphological, stylistic and areal factors. By analyzing these factors and the available historical data, I propose a diachronic explanation of the currently observed distribution. The study is mostly based on corpus data collected from contemporary Udmurt-language social media.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Abbreviations

a

thematic vowel/suffix -a-

cond

conditional mood

ill

illative

mult

multiplicative

neg.exist

negative existential

rus

Russian borrowing

smlf

semelfactive

vblz

verbalizer

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Received: 2018-03-29
Revised: 2018-07-03
Accepted: 2018-10-03
Published Online: 2019-10-24
Published in Print: 2019-11-26

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