Vocabulary-Based Classification and Contact-Induced Formation of Neologisms in Two Standard Varieties of Karelian
Abstract This paper investigates the lexical similarities and formation of neologisms of two written standard varieties of Karelian, North and Livvi Karelian, spoken in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Firstly, a naïve Bayes statistical model was generated to classify North and Livvi Karelian newspa...
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crbrillap:10.1163/19552629-14030006 2023-05-15T17:01:07+02:00 Vocabulary-Based Classification and Contact-Induced Formation of Neologisms in Two Standard Varieties of Karelian Tavi, Susanna Tavi, Lauri 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19552629-14030006 https://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/14/3/article-p684_006.xml https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/jlc/14/3/article-p684_006.xml unknown Brill https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ CC-BY-NC Journal of Language Contact volume 14, issue 3, page 684-719 ISSN 1877-4091 1955-2629 Linguistics and Language Language and Linguistics journal-article 2022 crbrillap https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-14030006 2022-12-11T12:44:59Z Abstract This paper investigates the lexical similarities and formation of neologisms of two written standard varieties of Karelian, North and Livvi Karelian, spoken in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Firstly, a naïve Bayes statistical model was generated to classify North and Livvi Karelian newspaper texts automatically. Secondly, the word formation strategies of neologisms from the classified newspaper texts were studied. The strategies between the two varieties were compared in terms of the code-copying framework. The results from the automatic classification and the investigation of neologisms show that the standards differ in lexicon and phonology, but the strategies of forming neologisms are similar: the most common strategy is to form words by language-internal means, and the other strategies are selective and global copying from Finnish, Russian, and English. The similar strategies in both standards suggest similar language planning. Article in Journal/Newspaper karelia* karelian Republic of Karelia Brill (via Crossref) Journal of Language Contact 14 3 684 719 |
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Abstract This paper investigates the lexical similarities and formation of neologisms of two written standard varieties of Karelian, North and Livvi Karelian, spoken in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Firstly, a naïve Bayes statistical model was generated to classify North and Livvi Karelian newspaper texts automatically. Secondly, the word formation strategies of neologisms from the classified newspaper texts were studied. The strategies between the two varieties were compared in terms of the code-copying framework. The results from the automatic classification and the investigation of neologisms show that the standards differ in lexicon and phonology, but the strategies of forming neologisms are similar: the most common strategy is to form words by language-internal means, and the other strategies are selective and global copying from Finnish, Russian, and English. The similar strategies in both standards suggest similar language planning. |
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Vocabulary-Based Classification and Contact-Induced Formation of Neologisms in Two Standard Varieties of Karelian |
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Vocabulary-Based Classification and Contact-Induced Formation of Neologisms in Two Standard Varieties of Karelian |
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Vocabulary-Based Classification and Contact-Induced Formation of Neologisms in Two Standard Varieties of Karelian |
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Vocabulary-Based Classification and Contact-Induced Formation of Neologisms in Two Standard Varieties of Karelian |
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Vocabulary-Based Classification and Contact-Induced Formation of Neologisms in Two Standard Varieties of Karelian |
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vocabulary-based classification and contact-induced formation of neologisms in two standard varieties of karelian |
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