Contact-induced features in the Russian speech of Nganasans

• Published in: Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics
• Main Author: Irina Khomchenkova
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Estonian
• Published: University of Tartu Press 2020
• Subjects: language contact; grammatical interference; corpus linguistics; Russian; Nganasan; Govorka; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Finnic. Baltic-Finnic; PH91-98.5; Ida; Nganasan*; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2020.11.2.01; https://doaj.org/article/e37646642fa4420aa7485a5ee54db2b2

This paper investigates the variety of Russian spoken by the Nganasans, basing on the Nganasan Russian subcorpus of narratives from the larger corpus of contact-influenced Russian speech of Russian Far East and Northern Siberia. The study focuses on morphosyntactic phenomena, namely peculiarities in...