Syntactic transfer and Russian influence in Veps
Abstrak
The current article examines Russian influence on Veps in the light of morphosyntactic change, morphological borrowing and the adoption of new categories. Spoken language has traditionally played a dominating role in the development of Veps and involved extensive variation. Conceivably, there is plenty of both dialectal and idiosyncratic variation in the adoption of Russian characteristics. Actual language contact is based on the intertwining of inherited and borrowed features, and multiple ways of adapting foreign patterns in morphological and syntactic rules. Consequently, the parallel use of Veps and Russian vocabulary and grammar has increased non-Finnic features in Veps. In the current article prefixal verbs are analysed in more detail by a cross-analysis of verbal morphology in Veps and Russian. The borrowing of Russian verbal prefixes in Veps shows that, in principle, lexically ruled grammatical patterns are more easily borrowed than categories that influence morphological paradigms.
Penulis (1)
Grünthal Riho
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2024
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1163/19589514-54010004
- Akses
- Open Access ✓