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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... languages have entered into many different types of contact . Contri- butions focus on the study of language varieties spoken in ' convergence areas ' in which speakers are multilingual in languages of at least two but sometimes all three ...
... languages have entered into many different types of contact . Contri- butions focus on the study of language varieties spoken in ' convergence areas ' in which speakers are multilingual in languages of at least two but sometimes all three ...
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... linguistic contact , inducing , in various periods and settings , changes in varieties they have been in contact with and undergoing changes themselves . The present volume gives a first summary of the results in this dynamic field of ...
... linguistic contact , inducing , in various periods and settings , changes in varieties they have been in contact with and undergoing changes themselves . The present volume gives a first summary of the results in this dynamic field of ...
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... contact - induced changes . The processes have often resulted in convergence between varieties belonging to the same or to different languages and language families . Recent years have seen an increasing general interest in areal ...
... contact - induced changes . The processes have often resulted in convergence between varieties belonging to the same or to different languages and language families . Recent years have seen an increasing general interest in areal ...
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... language contact and sym- biotic interaction in a Central Asian communication area . Areal convergence Codes used in one and the same geographical region tend to have features in common even if they are genealogically unrelated or only ...
... language contact and sym- biotic interaction in a Central Asian communication area . Areal convergence Codes used in one and the same geographical region tend to have features in common even if they are genealogically unrelated or only ...
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... contact situations . Problematic cases These ideal requirements are mostly highly unrealistic . It is , for example , very often difficult to decide whether certain changes are due to older or more recent contacts . It is often ...
... contact situations . Problematic cases These ideal requirements are mostly highly unrealistic . It is , for example , very often difficult to decide whether certain changes are due to older or more recent contacts . It is often ...
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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