Egor Kashkin, Irina Khomchenkova (Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Russian in contact: projects of the Language Contact Group at the Vinogradov Russian Language Institute

The presentation will outline the research on language contact which is carried out at the Vinogradov Russian Language Institute. We are interested in contact situations where Russian is either the source or the target language.

First, we will discuss the influence of Russian on neighbouring languages, particularly instances of code-switching and borrowings. We will elaborate on corpus-based case studies of Russian conjunctions, which interact with the local system of clause combining.

Second, we will present our projects on non-standard varieties of Russian (mainly those used by the speakers of different Uralic languages, with some parallels drawn from the study of Russian speech in Kyrgyzstan and preliminary typological observations). In addition to the evidence from participant observation, they involve data from the corpus specifically designed to annotate contact-induced features. The main principles of the development of such a corpus will be summarized. Selected corpus-based case studies will be presented (e.g. prepositional phrases in the Russian variety used by Nganasan speakers).