Russian Language Studies in North America

Russian Language Studies in North America
Author: Veronika Makarova
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0857287842

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of Russian language research in Canada and Russia, with a focus on elements of structure, as well as on language dynamics and change.

Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics

Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics
Author: Irina Kor Chahine
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2013-12-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027270961

This volume represents an overview of current research on Slavic linguistics in Europe and North America based on selected papers presented during the 6th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (September 1-3, 2011, Aix-en-Provence, France). It includes topics across a range of linguistic fields (morphosyntax, syntax, and semantics) and discussions on specific aspects of Slavic languages within a typological perspective. All the papers illustrate a range of approaches, and each paper presents rigorous analysis of a set of Slavic data within the context of various models and aspects of language. While the main focus of the collection is impersonal constructions in Slavic languages, the book also includes morphological topics, such as reflexives, antipassive and evidential markers, syntactical relations with zero sign, auxiliary verbs and subordinate clauses, and semantics of nouns, adverbs and adjectives. The volume will be of interest to all scholars studying Slavic languages as well as those interested in general linguistics and linguistic typology.

Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union

Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
Author: Diana Forker
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902726001X

The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles different case studies and systematically investigates the impact of Russian at all linguistic levels, from the lexicon to the domains of grammar to discourse, and with varying types of outcomes such as relatively rapid language shift, structural changes in a relatively stable contact situation, pidginization and super variability at the post-pidgin stage. The volume appeals to linguists studying language contact and contact-induced language change from a broad range of perspectives, who want to gain insight into how one of the largest languages in the world influences other smaller languages, but also experts of mostly minority languages in the sphere of the former Soviet Union.

Russian

Russian
Author: Paul Cubberley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2002-10-17
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521796415

This book provides an accessible introduction to the linguistic structure of Russian, including its history, dialects and sociolinguistics, as well as the central issues of phonology, morphology, syntax and word formation/lexicology. It particularly emphasises the special linguistic features of Russian which are not shared with English and other non-Slavic languages. For intermediate/advanced students of Russian, this will help to reinforce their understanding of how all levels of Russian function. Students and scholars of linguistics will find it a useful starting point for comparative work involving the structure of Russian and the Slavic languages, or issues such as standardisation, multilingualism, and the fate of former colonial languages. Each chapter begins with an introduction to the basic theoretical concepts of the area covered, presenting the linguistic facts and relationships in an easily accessible form. It will also serve as a learning aid to Cyrillic, with all examples transliterated.

Quantitative Approaches to the Russian Language

Quantitative Approaches to the Russian Language
Author: Mikhail Kopotev
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2017-09-08
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351599933

This edited collection presents a range of methods that can be used to analyse linguistic data quantitatively. A series of case studies of Russian data spanning different aspects of modern linguistics serve as the basis for a discussion of methodological and theoretical issues in linguistic data analysis. The book presents current trends in quantitative linguistics, evaluates methods and presents the advantages and disadvantages of each. The chapters contain introductions to the methods and relevant references for further reading. This will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in the area of quantitative and Slavic linguistics.

Transnational Russian Studies

Transnational Russian Studies
Author: Andy Byford
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2020-02-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1789624940

This book focuses on how Russia has perpetually redefined Russianness in reaction to the wider world. Treating culture as an expanding field, it offers original case studies in Russia’s imperial entanglements; the life of things ‘Russian’, including the language, beyond the nation’s boundaries, and Russia’s positioning in the globalized world.

Russian Language Outside the Nation

Russian Language Outside the Nation
Author: Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-03-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0748668462

This book explores a comprehensive set of tensions which emerged from the dislocated and deterritorialised position of Russian in the contemporary world from a sociolinguistic perspective.

Political Russian

Political Russian
Author: Natasha Simes
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Russian language
ISBN: 9780787292706

Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia

Religion and Language in Post-Soviet Russia
Author: Brian P. Bennett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2011-04-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1136736131

Church Slavonic, one of the world’s historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia. Blending religious studies and sociolinguistics, this book looks at Church Slavonic in the contemporary period. It uses Slavonic in order to analyse a number of wider topics, including the renewal and factionalism of the Orthodox Church; the transformation of the Russian language; and the debates about protecting the nation from Western cults and culture.

Russia in Asia

Russia in Asia
Author: Jane F. Hacking
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2020-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 100009099X

This edited volume presents new research on Russian-Asian connections by historians, art historians, literary scholars, and linguists. Of particular interest are imagined communities, social networks, and the legacy of colonialism in this important arena of global exchanges within the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras. Individual chapters investigate how Russians imagined Asia and its inhabitants, how these different populations interacted across political and cultural divides, and how people in Siberia, China, and other parts of Asia reacted to Russian imperialism, both in its formal and informal manifestations. A key strength of this volume is its interdisciplinary approach to the topic, challenging readers to synthesize multiple analytical lenses to better understand the multivalent connections binding Russia and Asia together.