The Slavic-Balkan Contact: The Case of Lipovan Romanian
The Slavic-Balkan Contact: The Case of Lipovan Romanian
Author(s): Adnana Boioc ApinteiSubject(s): Morphology, Syntax, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: contact language; morphosyntactic consequences; Lipovan community; Romanian-Russian contact language;
Summary/Abstract: Despite having Romanian as an official language, Dobrudja represents rather a multilingual region within Romania. Within this peculiar linguistic context, Romanian – Russian language contact found in Lipovan communities is clearly of interest, inasmuch as here (a variety of) Daco-Romanian meets a particular dialect of Russian, i.e. Lipovan Russian; thus, the Romanian spoken in these communities, i.e. Lipovan Romanian, is expected to be quite different than the standard language, bearing the signs of a long-lasting contact. In this paper I will focus on the effects of this contact upon the morphosyntax of Lipovan Romanian. In doing so, I will bring new data gathered from different ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork I have conducted in Lipovan communities (i.e., certain villages from Tulcea county) since February 2018.
Journal: Analele Universităţii Bucureşti. Limba şi literatura română
- Issue Year: LXIX/2020
- Issue No: 69
- Page Range: 15-34
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English
