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Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Diana Forker and Lenore A. Grenoble
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 50] 2021
► pp. 59–84

The ideological background of language change in Permic-speaking communities

| University of Helsinki

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.

Keywords: language ideologies, Permic languages, language contact, borrowed adjectives
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The framework
  • 3.Permic languages and language communities
  • 4.Language ideologies and language planning of the Permic people
  • 5.Borrowing of Russian relational adjectives in the Permic languages
    • 5.1Russian relational adjectives and their equivalents in the Permic languages
    • 5.2The history of borrowing of Russian relational adjectives
    • 5.3Translating of Russian relational adjectives by the modern Permic speakers
      • 5.3.1Analysis of Udmurt
      • 5.3.2Analysis of Komi-Zyrian
      • 5.3.3Analysis of Komi-Permyak
    • 5.4Comparing data
  • 6.Discussion
  • 7.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 18 June 2021
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