Systemic and Structural Changes in Latvian as a Result of Recent English Influence

Veisbergs, Andrejs

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“…In research studies loanwords are discussed by many Russian (Krysin 2008, Khalevin 2010a, 2010b, Serebrennikova 2014, Rivlina 2015 and international scholars (Haugen 1950, Poplack, Sankof & Miller 1988, Veisbergs 2006, Jaworski 2014 who mainly focus on the problem of the formal and semantic adaptation of borrowings to the recipient language revealing changes of a loaned word's meaning as well as their structural assimilation. The issue of English loanwords and their influence on the modern Russian language has become topical within the last decade and is being discussed by Krysin (2008), Levontina, Shmelev & Zaliznjak (2012), Vorob'eva (2009), Klement'eva (2014 et al One of the major problems in scope is the nature, rules and consequences of the interaction of new words with the cultural linguistic picture of the world (hereinafter -LPW).…”

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The Influence of Modern English Loanwords on the Verbal Code of Russian Culture

Alyunina

Nagel

2020

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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The aim of the article is to introduce the authors’ perspective on how English loanwords are changing the structure and the content of the verbal code of Russian culture and the Russian linguistic pictures of the world, as well as on how the latter might change the former. Having used the continuous sampling method, observation method, and synchronic-diachronic approach (lexical semantic analysis, comparative semantic analysis, morphological and quantitative analysis), the authors have allocated and analyzed 487 loanwords, which led to the introduction of three distinguished types of interaction between the verbal code of the Russian language and foreign loanwords. The first interaction type is the process whereby the loanwords adapt semantically to the rules of the host language and culture, which leads to the complete change of a loanword meaning or its modification (15 words). The second interaction type is connected with the loanwords bringing new concepts to a host language and indicating borrowed ideas and objects (270 words). The differentiation of these two interaction types is based on the results of a synchronic and diachronic study of the loanwords in Russian. The analyzed interaction types are linked to the changes in the host language’s verbal code. A concept of a “hybrid linguistic picture of the world” is being introduced as the one constituting the third interaction type (201 words). According to the authors, the hybrid linguistic picture of the world is developing at the current stage of the Russian language and is caused by the process of the morphological adaptation of English loanwords, which is manifested in the production of hybrid words and Russian words being actively substituted by English borrowings.

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The Influence of Modern English Loanwords on the Verbal Code of Russian Culture

Alyunina

Nagel

2020

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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“…Veisbergs, 2006: 476). Some blends reported in Latvian by Veisbergs (2006) are adapted English borrowings (e.g. kaplete < kapsula tablete 'caplet'), whilst others are ingenious native creations which may play with existing words such as migrorajons 'migrants' region' (which results from the substitution of c with g in mikrorajons 'micro-region').…”

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The Anglicisation of word formations: cross-linguistic blends in Spanish

Roig‐Marín¹

2016

English Today

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Whereas the influence of English in form of Anglicisms has attracted considerable attention, little has been written on how English is interacting with autochthonous word-formation processes in modern languages. The present paper attempts to shed some light on a phenomenon that has been very recently attested in Spanish: the coinage of blend words involving overlap and combination of material from both English and the recipient language (in this case Spanish). I argue that these ad hoc words give us important insights into the state and status of English in what Kachru (1982) called the ‘Expanding Circle’.

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Language Planning in Latvia as a Struggle for National Sovereignty

Veisbergs

2018

Language Planning in the Post-Communist Era

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Systemic and Structural Changes in Latvian as a Result of Recent English Influence

Cited by 4 publications

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The Influence of Modern English Loanwords on the Verbal Code of Russian Culture

The Influence of Modern English Loanwords on the Verbal Code of Russian Culture

The Anglicisation of word formations: cross-linguistic blends in Spanish

Language Planning in Latvia as a Struggle for National Sovereignty

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