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normatieve Russische taal

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The problem of normativity of the Russian language in the scope of the modern state of development of literary languages. In the last decade the fate of modern Russian language has become an important and popular research topic. The frequent usage of vulgarisms, the increasing amount of loan words as well as blending of once distinct language styles and the general changes in syntax stir concerns. This topic is highlighted in a wide range of scientific works, but most of them consider this problem as purely national, and no comparison is made with other languages. This makes an impression that the problems which occur in modern Russian language are unique, and are only applicable to Russian language and to no other. The similar point of view is evident towards West-European languages in West-European linguistics. The parallels regarding the development and changes that are occurring in modern English, German, Dutch and French languages became a topic of comparative research provided by the Dutch linguist Y. Van Der Horst. In his book The End of The Standard Language (Het einde van de standaardtaal 2008) the researcher points out all those changes which are taking place in modern West-European languages reflect the new approach or the new point of view on the language. Y. Van Der Horst links such paradigm shift with the end of language culture of Renaissance. This paper provides an overview of similarities and differences in the development of Russian language compared to West-European languages. The author points that the history of development of Russian language is going in parallel regarding to the history of development of different West-European languages and that the changes which are occurring nowadays in modern Russian language are not significantly differ from those occurring in the West-European ones. Therefore, the crisis, that is taking place in the European literary language signifies not only the end of the Renaissance but also the beginning of the new age of development of the European languages, which is rooted in World globalization.