Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and TurkicRoutledge, 2004 M08 2 - 388 pages The authors are outstanding scholars engaged in the study of language varieties spoken in 'convergence areas' in which speakers are multilingual in languages of at least two but sometimes all three language families. Many of the contributions present new data collected in fieldwork. The geographic area covered is Western and Central Asia where varieties of Iranian, Semitic and Turkic languages have entered into many different types of contact. The intricate linguistic contact situations demonstrate highly interesting convergence phenomena. |
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... Aramaic to Arabic in the Middle East . An example of ongoing shift is the process by which many Tati communities are giving up their Iranian code in favour of Azerbaijanian ( STILO ) . Judgments upon substratal effects in the linguistic ...
... Aramaic to Arabic in the Middle East . An example of ongoing shift is the process by which many Tati communities are giving up their Iranian code in favour of Azerbaijanian ( STILO ) . Judgments upon substratal effects in the linguistic ...
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... Aramaic was used as a medium of this kind for a number of older Iranian languages . Texts in Aramaic were written to be read out in Old Persian , Parthian , Middle Persian and possibly Sogdian . In the Sasanian period , the language ...
... Aramaic was used as a medium of this kind for a number of older Iranian languages . Texts in Aramaic were written to be read out in Old Persian , Parthian , Middle Persian and possibly Sogdian . In the Sasanian period , the language ...
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... Aramaic records may have contributed to the formation of Partian . The iḍāfa construction , which appears in Parthian and is later typical of many West Ira- nian languages ( izāfet , ezāfe ) might be due to Aramaic influence . Due to ...
... Aramaic records may have contributed to the formation of Partian . The iḍāfa construction , which appears in Parthian and is later typical of many West Ira- nian languages ( izāfet , ezāfe ) might be due to Aramaic influence . Due to ...
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... Aramaic influence , the result of a linguis- tic and political development that started under influences from Median , Assyrian / Neo - Babylonian , Elamite and Urartean predecessors of the Achae- menids . Old Persian thus continues ...
... Aramaic influence , the result of a linguis- tic and political development that started under influences from Median , Assyrian / Neo - Babylonian , Elamite and Urartean predecessors of the Achae- menids . Old Persian thus continues ...
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... Aramaic . The pseudo - ergative might be due to a large Kurdish component among the emigrants , which would mean imposi- tion . In any case , there must have been heavy pressure from an ergative - type language group . In Bukhara Arabic ...
... Aramaic . The pseudo - ergative might be due to a large Kurdish component among the emigrants , which would mean imposi- tion . In any case , there must have been heavy pressure from an ergative - type language group . In Bukhara Arabic ...
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Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian ... Éva Ágnes Csató,Bo Isaksson,Carina Jahani No preview available - 2004 |
Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian ... CSATO No preview available - 2016 |
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adjectives Anatolia Arabic dialects Arabkhane Aramaic areal Asia attested Azerbaijanian borrowing Bukhara Bukhara Arabic Bulut Central Asian Arabic century consonant convergence copula Csató cultural Doerfer East Africa Eastern elements example ezafe feminine focal intraterminality forms front vowel genitive global copies glottal plosive grammar Greek guage Harrassowitz influence Iran Iranian languages Iraq Islam Isogloss Jastrow Johanson Kashkay Kurdish language contact left-branching lexical linguistic literary loans loanwords marker Middle Persian modal constructions Modern Persian Mongolian morphology noun Oghuz origin Ottoman Turkish participle patterns pharyngeal phoneme phonological phrases plural postpositions prepositions present pronounced pronunciation Qashqa-darya region relative clauses right-branching semantic Semitic singular Sonqor Sonqor Turkic speakers structure Studies suffix Swahili syntactic syntax Tajik tion Trabzon translation Turkic languages Turkic varieties türkischen Turks typological Uzbek Vafsi velar verb vocabulary vowel harmony Western Wiesbaden Windfuhr word order written