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The paper deals with three examples of the so called unbalanced multilingualism (Rzech Pospolita, Ottoman Empire, and Latvian Republic). On the base of the crosslinguistic comparison, the paper shows trigger mechanisms of lexical transfer from the dominant (official) language into stigmatized languages in the postimperial context. The paper deals with three examples of the so called unbalanced multilingualism (Rzech Pospolita, Ottoman Empire, and Latvian Republic). On the base of the crosslinguistic comparison, the paper shows trigger mechanisms of lexical transfer from the dominant (official) language into stigmatized languages in the postimperial context.
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This page is a summary of: On several sociolinguistic mechanisms of lexical transfer in Baltic-Balkan area (based on Turkish-Bulgarian, German-Polish, and Russian-Latvian language contact), Balcanica, January 2019, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
DOI: 10.31168/2618-8597.2019.15.18.
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