Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 50] 2021
► pp. 59–84
In the present paper I examine the language ideologies which existed in the Soviet Union and which exist in Russia today, and their impact on language change in Permic-speaking communities. In particular, I investigate how different ideologies viewed possible sources for “enriching” these languages and what kind of attitudes they held towards borrowing and language purism. In the article I present the example of Russian relational adjectives and investigate the ways in which they have been integrated by the Permic languages during the Soviet era and after perestroika. Based on the results of a translation test, I also analyze how modern Permic speakers integrate Russian relational adjectives.