Kapitolina Fedorova
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kapitolina Fedorova plays a role.
Articles
2021 The choice of forms in contact varieties: Linguistic vs. social motivation (on the base of language contact in the Russian-Chinese border area) Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union, Forker, Diana and Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.), pp. 345–368 | Chapter
The article addresses the issue of language choice in contact situations on the basis of linguistic intersection in the Russian-Chinese border area. It aims to analyze morphological forms found in Russian-Chinese communication, both in the past (in data on Russian-Chinese pidgin) and in the… read more
2018 The Russian-Chinese Pidgin: An attempt at the sociology of grammar Language of Empire, Language of Power, Versteegh, Kees (ed.), pp. 112–127 | Article
For a long period in history, the border between Russian Empire and China was a place of constant and intensive cultural and language contacts, which resulted in the emergence of the Russian-Chinese Pidgin. In the 19th century it was used by no less than one million people around the border with… read more