In this paper, I built a grabber for posts from Russian migrants in the German community on the social network "Вконтакте" (vk.com) to retrieve cases of Russian-German code-switching. After manual disambiguation I compiled a small corpus of 810 posts, including 425 different borrowed words, collocations, and clauses that I used to classify the cases of code-switching and to prove the hypothesis of the absence of non-functional code-switching in written speech. Also, the hypotheses put forward by Brehmer ( 2007) on the quality of German influence on the Russian language of immigrants were both partially refuted and confirmed.
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