What Price Languages in Contact: Is There Russian Language Influence on the Syntax of Moldovan?

In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 73-86

Abstract

"Our culture was virtually annihilated. The great paradox is our children study German, French and English in school. They can use Latin letters for these foreign languages, but not for their native language." Thus spoke Mikhail Chimpoi, a prominent literary critic and candidate for the national legislature in 1989; as, in the spirit of the "new" Moldova, restrictions were loosened on what officials were allowed to say in public about the language situation.