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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. 119–142

Izhma Komi in Western Siberia

At the crossroads of language contact

| V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the RAS | Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the RAS
| National Research University Higher School of Economics

This paper considers contact-induced change in Izhma Komi subdialects spoken in Western Siberia. We focus on the interaction of Izhma Komi, first, with Russian and, second, with the indigenous Siberian languages (Nenets and to a lesser extent Khanty). The main emphasis is on the phenomena of pattern borrowing at various language levels, which mostly remained beyond previous studies. For instance, these include the borrowing of some phonotactic patterns, the copying of polysemy patterns, and changes in the properties of some grammatical constructions. We discuss how in each case the degree of contact-induced change depends on the sociolinguistic situation.

Keywords: Uralic languages, Izhma Komi, Nenets, Khanty, Russian, contact-induced change, loan translation
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Sociolinguistic situation
  • 3.Influence of Russian
    • 3.1Phonetics
    • 3.2Loan translations
    • 3.3Grammar
  • 4.Influence of Nenets and Khanty
    • 4.1Phonetics
    • 4.2Loan translations
    • 4.3Grammar
  • 5.Discussion
  • Notes
  • List of abbreviations (different from the Leipzig Glossing Rules)
  • References
Published online: 18 June 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.50.05kas
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