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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