Contact-Induced Change in the Domain of Grammatical Gender in Pontic Greek Spoken in Georgia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5901372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Svetlana Berikashvili (0000-0002-7016-0822, University of Göttingen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 79 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages7020079 |
| OpenAlex | W4220663438 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
This paper presents an empirical study on the cross-linguistic influence of contact languages (Turkish, Georgian and Russian) in the domain of grammatical gender in Pontic Greek spoken by the Pontic-speaking community of Georgia. The study is based on corpus data collected during several periods of fieldwork within the Pontic-speaking community of Georgia. The questions addressed in the paper are: What innovations can be observed in the understudied variety in the gender domain, and, if any innovation is observed, are they due to the impact of contact languages? I argue that contact-induced changes in the gender domain manifest themselves in the assignment of gender to loan nouns, and contribute to the establishment of the default gender value. The main findings reveal that, in comparison with other Pontic varieties, this variety is on the one hand more sensitive to the animacy hierarchy, and, on the other, shows increased use of the feminine gender as a result of the incorporation of feminine loans from a gendered language, i.e., Russian
Animacy · Domain (mathematical analysis · Geography · Georgian · Grammatical Gender · Hierarchy · Language contact · Linguistics · Noun · Political science · Turkish · Value (mathematics · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Gender Studies in Language · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Psychology
Boundaries and Belonging in the Greek Community of Georgia
Turkish
Dynamics of Language Contact
Gender in Grammar and Cognition
The Historical Background of the Asia Minor Dialects
Keeping Languages Alive
Greek
The Romeyka infinitive
Animacy, definiteness, and case in Cappadocian and other Asia Minor Greek dialects
Greek-Speaking Moslems of North-East Turkey
Competing influences on gender assignment
Gender Agreement Mismatches in Heritage Greek
On the diachrony of gender in Asia Minor Greek
Constraining gender assignment rules
The role of morphology in gender determination
Modality, antiveridicality and complementation
Optimizing gender
Gender meets the Usage-Based Model
The conjugation classes of Tilapa Otomi
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |