Some Observations on Morphophonological Adaptation of English-derived ...

Jun 22, 2015 by

Some Observations on Morphophonological Adaptation of English-derived Loanwords in Russian Slang

As discussed in an earlier post, loanwords (i.e. words borrowed from another language) often bear their foreign origins on their sleeve, so to speak. However, it is not true that loanwords always retain their pristine phonological...

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The Fast-Disappearing Ninilchik Russian of Alaska—And Some of Its Ling...

Apr 6, 2015 by

The Fast-Disappearing Ninilchik Russian of Alaska—And Some of Its Linguistic Peculiarities

Several followers of this blog and I have been discussing an article about the work of Andrei Kibrik (Moscow State University) and Mira Bergelson (The Higher School of Economics, Moscow) on “an antiquated dialect of Russian … still...

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