  Language interference is common in today's multilingual societies where more
languages are being in contact and as a global final result leads to the
creation of hybrid languages. These, together with doubts on their right to be
officially recognised made emerge in the area of computational linguistics the
problem of their automatic identification and further elaboration. In this
paper, we propose a first attempt to identify the elements of a
Ukrainian-Russian hybrid language, Surzhyk, through the adoption of the
example-based rules created with the instruments of programming language R. Our
example-based study consists of: 1) analysis of spoken samples of Surzhyk
registered by Del Gaudio (2010) in Kyiv area and creation of the written
corpus; 2) production of specific rules on the identification of Surzhyk
patterns and their implementation; 3) testing the code and analysing the
effectiveness.
