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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... isoglosses improves mutual understanding . Conver- gence can be unilateral , due the influence of one code on another : Code A becomes more similar to code B. It can also be bilateral , due to reciprocal influence : Code A and code B ...
... isoglosses improves mutual understanding . Conver- gence can be unilateral , due the influence of one code on another : Code A becomes more similar to code B. It can also be bilateral , due to reciprocal influence : Code A and code B ...
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... isoglosses , certain regions undergo the changes before others . We often find heterogeneous transition zones with overlapping isoglosses ; see the ' buffer zones ' discussed by STILO in connection with the diffusion of word order ...
... isoglosses , certain regions undergo the changes before others . We often find heterogeneous transition zones with overlapping isoglosses ; see the ' buffer zones ' discussed by STILO in connection with the diffusion of word order ...
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... Isogloss Three: [Adverb + Adjective] Regarding the pattern [ADJ + adv], Arabic and some dialects of NeoAramaic, both VO languages, differ significantly from their neighbors and follow the expected universal pattern by positioning the ...
... Isogloss Three: [Adverb + Adjective] Regarding the pattern [ADJ + adv], Arabic and some dialects of NeoAramaic, both VO languages, differ significantly from their neighbors and follow the expected universal pattern by positioning the ...
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... Isogloss Five. Almost none of the Iranian languages of this large Iranian linguistic area has preposed relative clauses. That does not mean that Iranian languages are incapable of employing this pattern, to wit, it seems that Ossetic ...
... Isogloss Five. Almost none of the Iranian languages of this large Iranian linguistic area has preposed relative clauses. That does not mean that Iranian languages are incapable of employing this pattern, to wit, it seems that Ossetic ...
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... pattern . Such a language may have been on the edge of a [ dem + HEAD ] zone and by switching to this pattern then also becomes consistent with the area inside this isogloss . Nor is 41 IRANIAN AS BUFFER ZONE BETWEEN TURKIC AND SEMITIC.
... pattern . Such a language may have been on the edge of a [ dem + HEAD ] zone and by switching to this pattern then also becomes consistent with the area inside this isogloss . Nor is 41 IRANIAN AS BUFFER ZONE BETWEEN TURKIC AND SEMITIC.
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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