Language Formation by Adults: The Case of Sino-Russian Idiolects

by Zygmunt Frajzyngier

Chinese immigrants who settle in Russia's Far East without formal instruction in the Russian language communicate with local Russians using Russian vocabulary. Each immigrant forms their language to communicate with Russians, not with family or other immigrants. The 'single-generation languages' that immigrants form are not replications or simplifications of Chinese or Russian. Grammatical systems formed by these speakers challenge some fundamental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004463291
• ISBN13: 9789004463295
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 372 Pages