The la-form: Russian verbs in Nanai speech

Nanai speakers who are fluent both in Nanai and Russian use verb forms with a Russian root and the suffix -la (called further “la-forms”) in their speech. The status of -la is under question: on the one hand, it resembles the Russian past tense form (-l), on the other hand, it can be interpreted as...

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Published in:Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics
Main Authors: Oskolskaya, Sofia, Stoynova, Natasha
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu 2013
Subjects:
language contact
code-switching
endangered languages
borrowings
verbal morphology
Russian
Nanai
Tungusic languages
Online Access:http://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/jeful.2013.4.2.05
https://doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2013.4.2.05
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Summary:Nanai speakers who are fluent both in Nanai and Russian use verb forms with a Russian root and the suffix -la (called further “la-forms”) in their speech. The status of -la is under question: on the one hand, it resembles the Russian past tense form (-l), on the other hand, it can be interpreted as the Nanai derivational suffix -la/-lə, which is used in Standard Nanai for the verbalization of nouns. We argue that in modern Nanai this case turns out to be a complicated one, and that la-forms are maintained due to their links with both of these sources.

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