This paper addresses the morpho-syntactic forms of ex-neuter-gender of Canadian Doukhobor Russian nouns. Doukhobor Russian is a near-extinct variety of Russian spoken by a small group of elderly Doukhobors (a religious and ethnic minority of Russian origins) residing mostly in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta. While Standard Russian has three noun genders (feminine, masculine and neuter), this paper demonstrates that in Doukhobor Russian, a neuter gender erosion has been taking place, whereby ex-neuter-gender nouns have been shifting their declension paradigms mostly to feminine F1 declension forms. Ex-neuter-gender words in Doukhobor Russian also mostly agree with pronouns, attributives, and numerals in feminine gender. They also predominantly agree in feminine gender with preterite verb forms. Two major subclasses of ex-neuter-gender nouns are identified: those in which the stem is stressed and those in which the stress is on the inflectional vowel. A stressed vowel in an inflectional suffix of the nominative and the accusative blocks the paradigm shift of ex-neuter-gender nouns, but does not prevent female gender agreement with attributives and preterite verb forms. The discussion identifies parallels of neuter-gender erosion in Doukhobor Russian with similar processes found in 19th and 20th century Russian dialects.

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加拿大 Doukhobor 俄语中的前中性名词

本文讨论了加拿大 Doukhobor 俄语名词的前中性的形态句法形式。Doukhobor 俄语是一种近乎灭绝的俄语变体，由主要居住在不列颠哥伦比亚省、萨斯喀彻温省和艾伯塔省的一小群老年 Doukhobors（俄罗斯血统的宗教和少数民族）使用。虽然标准俄语具有三个名词性（女性、男性和中性），但本文表明，在 Doukhobor 俄语中，发生了中性性别侵蚀，即前中性名词已将其变格范式主要转移到女性 F1 变格范式形式。Doukhobor 俄语中的前中性词也大多与女性性别中的代词、定语和数字一致。他们也主要同意女性性别与过时的动词形式。确定了前中性名词的两个主要子类：重音词干的那些和重音在屈折元音上的那些。主格和宾格的屈折后缀中的重读元音会阻止前中性名词的范式转换，但不会阻止女性与定语和过时的动词形式达成一致。该讨论违反了俄罗斯 Doukhobor 中的中性性别侵蚀与 19 世纪和 20 世纪俄罗斯方言中发现的类似过程的相似之处。但并不妨碍女性与定语和过时的动词形式达成一致。该讨论违反了俄罗斯 Doukhobor 中的中性性别侵蚀与 19 世纪和 20 世纪俄罗斯方言中发现的类似过程的相似之处。但并不妨碍女性与定语和过时的动词形式达成一致。该讨论违反了俄罗斯 Doukhobor 中的中性性别侵蚀与 19 世纪和 20 世纪俄罗斯方言中发现的类似过程的相似之处。