Russian Language Studies (Dec 2016)

INFLUENCE OF LANGUAGE CONTACT ON LANGUAGE VIEW OF THE WORLD

  • M A Yelizaryeva

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 1
pp. 88 – 96

Abstract

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This article argues that language contacts may influence linguistic view of the world. The hypothesis was formulated by Russian linguists, but did not attract enough attention. On the example of German calques in the Czech language we propose a set of methods for proving the hypothesis.

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