Corpus-based regiolect studies: Kazan region

Abstract

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Our paper aims to regard the specificity of building and usage of e-corpora created in Kazan (Volga region) Federal University: dictionary and textual corpus “Kazan region: the language of Russian documents (16th to 17th centuries), e-corpus of Russian dialects in Kazan region (19th to 21st centuries), e-corpus of Russian texts connected with Kazan region / the Republic of Tatarstan (20th to 21st centuries). The article describes the informational potential of e-references containing and reflecting the significant data connected with general and specific characteristics of Kazan regiolect (the territory variant of Russian language used in Kazan region, which is well-known as a region of interlingual contacts).