Russian Borrowings in the Aleutian and Den’aina Languages: Causes and Assimilation

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10.2991/aebmr.k.200114.118How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Russian America, borrowing, causes, the Aleut language, Dena’ina, semantic assimilation

Abstract

The article aims to identify the correlation between the reasons for borrowing Russian words into the indigenous peoples’ languages and semantic assimilation of the loan words from the perspective of their interaction with native lexical units. Russian borrowings are viewed as a part of Russian historical and cultural heritage of Russian America. Commonalities in the systemic impact of the Russian language on the Aleutian and Dena’ina languages, such as similar causes of borrowings, similarities in the distribution of loan words in the thematic groups, common tendencies in the process of adaptation show that there were numerous common features in the cross-cultural and cross-language contacts.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - I.M. Sheina
AU  - E.I. Sidorina
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/01/18
TI  - Russian Borrowings in the Aleutian and Den’aina Languages: Causes and Assimilation
BT  - Proceedings of the First International Volga Region Conference on Economics, Humanities and Sports (FICEHS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 507
EP  - 510
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200114.118
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200114.118
ID  - Sheina2020
ER  -