RP Working Bibliography

  1. Bergelson, Mira B., and Andrej A. Kibrik. “The Ninilchik Variety of Russian: Linguistic Heritage of Alaska.” Slavica Helsingiensia, vol. 40, Instrumentarium of Linguistics: Sociolinguistic Approaches to Non-Standard Russian, Helsinki University Press, 2010, pp. 299-313. 1
  2. Bergelson, Mira B., and Andrej A. Kibrik. “Русский язык на берегах залива Кука: самоидентификация культуры в условиях изоляции” [Russian Language on the Shores of Cook Inlet: Cultural Self-Identification in Isolation]. Вестник Томского государственного университета. Филология [Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filologiya] [Tomsk State University Journal of Philology], no. 54, 2018, pp. 29-41.
  3. Bergelson, Mira B., and Andrej A. Kibrik. “Ninilchik Russian in the Broader Context of Alaskan Russian.” Языковые контакты в циркумполярном регионе. 27–29 октября 2017 г. Институт языкознания РАН, Москва: Тезисы конференции [Language Contacts in the Circumpolar Region. October 27–29, 2017. Institute of Linguistics RAS, Moscow: Conference Abstracts], edited by О. А. Казакевич et al., Институт языкознания РАН [Institute of Linguistics RAS], 2017, p. 9.
  4. Kantarovich, Jessica. “Russian Contact and Linguistic Variation in Alaska, with Special Attention to Ninilchik Russian.” The University of Chicago, 2020. 2
  1. This article is devoted to the sociolinguistic and historical contexts of the Ninilchik variety of the Russian language, a unique dialect spoken in a remote village in Alaska, founded by Russian settlers who intermarried with the local indigenous population. Ninilchik Russian phonetic and grammatical features are considered in the study, compared with standard Russian, and the potential influence of native languages of Alaska and other Russian dialects is noted. Ultimately, the purpose of the article is to document and analyze this dying dialect, to provide insight into language contacts, dialect variations, and the linguistic legacy of Russia’s presence in North America. ↩︎
  2. This source introduces a linguistic study focused on Ninilchik Russian. The paper begins with the historical context of Russian contact in Alaska, which laid the foundation for the dialect’s development. The research then delves into analyzing the distinct features of Ninilchik Russian, examining its lexicon (including archaic Russian words, borrowings from indigenous languages and English, and semantic changes), phonology, word formation, morphology (gender and case), and syntax, often contrasting these with Contemporary Standard Russian. ↩︎