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On the basis of a survey from June/July 2014, this article investigates the attitudes towards Ukrainian, Russian, and the widespread Ukrainian-Russian mixed speech in central areas of Ukraine. Although there are certain differences between areas that are differentiated by the amount of use of the three codes, all in all there are no hints at a profound language conflict. While Ukrainian is clearly preferred as the dominating language in state and society, the attitude towards Russian is not a hostile one, and there is an open-minded stance to settle questions of language politics on a more regional level. As for the Ukrainian-Russian mixed speech, which is stigmatized by many politicians and representatives of the cultural elites, the attitude towards it among ordinary people is differentiated. It includes two aspects: Whether it is seen as a menace to culture, and whether it is seen as convenient in daily life. While there are respondents who either approve or reject this code in both aspects, there also more than a few who evaluate it positively in the one, but negatively in the other dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article investigates the influence of Russian on the inflectional morphology of Belarusian-Russian and Ukrainian-Russian mixed speech, which are widespread in Belarus and Ukraine. The data come from two corpora of spontaneous family conversations in mixed speech collected at seven locations in each country. The analysis focuses exclusively on phenomena of verb inflection. The common supposition in contact linguistics that the more regular (more 'natural') structures of one of the two contact or donor languages become established in the mixed variety can be only conditionally confirmed. Common forms of Standard Russian and Ukrainian (or Belarusian) dialects, instead, are wide-spread in the corpus. In general, verb inflection is more resistant to the results of language contact than noun inflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article compares the history of the Transylvanian-Saxon dialect in Romania with that of the Luxembourgish language of Luxemburg. Linguistic differences and similarities of phonetics, vocabulary, and morphology are examined, the development of Transylvanian-Saxon as a dialect is described, and information is offered on the mixing and fusion of languages which took place in the Transylvanian region among immigrants from central Franconia, central eastern Germany, and Wallonia, Belgium. The role of colonialism in the development of the Transylvanian dialect is discussed.

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The article discusses research on Dutch probatio penne, or the marks left behind in medieval manuscripts by the testing and breaking in of new pens by the authors. Middle Dutch manuscripts are investigated, translations of various Middle Dutch terms used in manuscripts are offered, and linguistic mixing of Ænglisc and Middle Dutch is described.

The article focuses on the use of both Belarusian and Russian language in Belarusian works of fiction. The use of the interlanguage Trasianka, which is a combination of Belarusian and Russian, is discussed and its function as a stylistic device in belles-lettres is examined. The author contends that use of Transianka is in part a reaction of litterateurs and artists to sociopolitical and sociodemographic changes in Belarus. Use of Transianka to portray social irony and political satire is considered.

The article discusses the emergence of "Anglo-dumb German" or "Denglisch" as a leading language for German speakers and texts that is a melding of American English and German. The author notes conservatives' alarms over the demise of German and the Germanization of foreign loan words. The tone of the article is both academically ridiculing and humorous, as such verbal integrations into German as "kid" and "cool" are discussed.

The article presents a report from the 11th intercultural communication and learning conference on European multilinguality, mixed languages, and cultural hybridity on May 31 and June 1, 2013 hosted by the Slavic linguistics department of the Technische Universität Dresden university in Dresden, Germany. Topics of presentations delivered included portrayals of new Russian architecture in German mass media, compliments and praise in business communications, and the use of the online hybrid language podonki.