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Author Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, author.

Title Language formation by adults : the case of Sino-Russian idiolects / by Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Natalia Gurian, Sergei Karpenko
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021

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Series Brill studies in language contact and dynamics of language, 2214-5613 ; 2
Brill Studies in language contact and dynamics of language ; v. 2. 2214-5613
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. The Aim of the Work -- 2. The Languages -- 3. The Importance of This Study -- 4. Previous Research -- 5. Sino-Russian Idiolects Are Not 'New Varieties' -- 6. Previous Research on Sino-Russian -- 7. Methodology -- 8. The Data -- 9. A Note about Glossing Conventionn -- Chapter 2. Phonology -- 1. Previous Scholarship on Phonology -- 2. Segmental Structure, Constraints and Rules of Mandarin -- 3. Segmental Structure, Constraints and Rules of Russian -- 4. The Sino-Russian Segmental Inventory
5. Resolution of Features and Phonotactic Constraints -- 6. Phonotactics -- 7. The Dental Sonorants: r, l and n Distinction -- 8. Stress Assignment -- 9. Conclusions and Implications about Phonology -- Chapter 3. Other Formal Means of Coding -- 1. Introduction to Formal Means -- 2. The Category 'Word' -- 3. Pauses -- 4. Linear Orders as a Coding Means -- 5. Free Grammatical Morphemes -- 6. Conclusions regarding the Formal Means of Coding in Sino-Russian -- Chapter 4. Lexicons of the Sino-Russian Idiolects -- 1. Aim of the Chapter -- 2. Lexical Categories
3. Number of Words and Number of Different Words in the Texts -- 4. Lexical Convergence -- 5. The Choice of Lexical Items -- 6. Conclusions about Lexical Items -- Chapter 5. The Emergence of Phrasal Categories -- 1. The Importance of the Chapter -- 2. The Emergence of the Noun Phrase -- 3. The Emergence of Prepositional Phrases -- 4. Numeral Phrases -- 5. Verb Phrases (Lack Of) -- 6. The Role of Pauses in Defining the Phrasal Structure -- 7. Conclusion about the Emergence of Phrasal Categories -- Chapter 6. The Noun Phrase
1. The Defining Features and the Formal Means of Coding within the Noun Phrase -- 2. Inceptive Coding of Number -- 3. Modification of One Noun by Another -- 4. Modification by a Pronoun -- 5. Modification by a Property Concept -- 6. Modification by a Quantifier -- 7. Conclusions about Noun Phrase -- Chapter 7. System of Reference -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Formal Coding Means -- 3. Introduction of New Entities in Discourse -- 4. Coding an Unknown Member of a Set -- 5. Reference Left To Listener's Computation -- 6. Switch Reference within Discourse: the Function of Pronouns
7. Deixis -- 8. Anaphora -- 9. Unspecified Entity -- 10. Locative Anaphora -- 11. Conclusions about the System of Reference -- Chapter 8. Antecedent-Follow up Relation -- 1. The Role of Pauses -- 2. The Antecedent-Comment Distinction -- 3. Utterance-Internal Pauses -- 4. Discourse Connection -- 5. Non-propositional Addressee and Presentative Function -- 6. Conclusions -- Chapter 9. Modality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assertive Modality -- 3. Interrogative Modality -- 4. Negation -- 5. Imperative: Expectation of the Immediate Implementation
Summary "Chinese immigrants who settle in Russia's Far East without formal instruction in the Russian language communicate with local Russians using Russian vocabulary. Each immigrant forms their language to communicate with Russians, not with family or other immigrants. The 'single-generation languages' that immigrants form are not replications or simplifications of Chinese or Russian. Grammatical systems formed by these speakers challenge some fundamental assumptions in early 21st-century linguistic theories. Grammatical systems of single-generation languages provide a unique window into how complex grammatical systems emerge, what are the first formal means of expression, and what are the first meanings expressed in grammatical systems. Given massive migrations in the contemporary world, single-generation languages are common, yet understudied, products of language contact"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 27, 2021)
Subject Languages in contact -- Russia (Federation) -- Primorskiĭ kraĭ
Russian language -- Foreign elements -- Chinese
Chinese language -- Influence on Russian
Chinese language -- Russia (Federation) -- Primorskiĭ kraĭ
Immigrants -- Russia (Federation) -- Primorskiĭ kraĭ -- Language
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization.
Chinese language
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization
Immigrants -- Language
Language and languages
Languages in contact
SUBJECT Primorskiĭ kraĭ (Russia) -- Languages
Subject Russia (Federation) -- Primorskiĭ kraĭ
Form Electronic book
Author Gurian, Natalia, author.
Karpenko, Sergeĭ, author.
LC no. 2021031099
ISBN 9789004465848
9004465847