Open AccessPrefix Variation: A Comparison between Slang and Contemporary Standard Russian
Author(s) -
Jonas Gjervold
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
poljarnyj vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1890-9671
pISSN - 1500-7502
DOI - 10.7557/6.2807
Subject(s) - prefix , variation (astronomy) , linguistics , slang , russian language , history , philosophy , physics , astrophysics
This paper explores prefix variation in Russian occasional verbs. Occasional words are words that are produced in speech, but don't recur as consolidated units in the language. The main aim is to determine whether prefix variation behaves differently in occasional verbs than in standardized Russian