Nonstandard Use of the "Reflexive" Affix -s j a in Russian Speech of Bilingual Speakers of Northern Siberia and the Russian Far East

• Irina Khomchenkova ^[1] ; Polina Pleshak ^[1] ; Natalia Stoynova ^[2]
  1. [1] Moscow State University

     Moscow State University

     Rusia

     
  2. [2] Russian Academy of Sciences

     Russian Academy of Sciences

     Rusia

     
• Localización: Formal and Methodological Approaches to Applied Linguistics / coord. por Sonja Mujcinovic, Eduardo Gómez Garzarán, 2020, ISBN 978-3-03928-323-1, págs. 25-34
• Idioma: inglés
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  • One of the features of the oral Russian speech of bilingual speakers of the indigenouslanguages of Russia is the omission/the overuse of the “reflexive” affix -sj a (a “middle voice” markerwith a wide range of uses including reflexive, reciprocal, anticausative, passive, and some others).We discuss the data on the nonstandard use of -sj a in the Russian speech of bilingual speakers oftwo language groups that differ both from Russian and from each other in this grammatical domain:Samoyedic (Forest Enets, Nganasan, and Nenets) and Tungusic (Nanai and Ulch). The data comefrom the corpus of contact-influenced Russian speech, which is being created by our team. We showthat the mismatches in standard and nonstandard usage cannot be explained by direct structuralcopying from the donor language (indigenous) to the recipient one (the local variety of Russian).Nor is there a consistent system which differs from standard Russian since there are many moreusages that follow the rules of standard Russian. The influence of the indigenous languages explainssome overuses and omissions; the others can be explained by other factors, e.g., difficulties in theacquisition of verb pairs with non-transparent semantic or syntactic relations.