Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia write by Edward J. Vajda. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The twelve articles in this volume describe Yeniseic, Samoyedic and Siberian Turkic languages as a linguistic complex of great interest to typologists, grammarians, diachronic and synchronic linguists, as well as cultural anthropologists. The articles demonstrate how interdependent the disparate languages spoken in this area actually are. Individual articles discuss borrowing and language replacement, as well as compare the development of language subsystems, such as numeral words in Ket and Selkup. Three of the articles also discuss the historical and anthropological origins of the tribes of this area. The book deals with linguistics from the vantage of both historical anthropology as well as diachronic and synchronic linguistic structure. The editor's introduction offers a concise summary of the diverse languages of this area, with attention to both their differences and similarities. A major feature uniting them is their mutual interaction with the unique Yeniseic language family the only group in North Asia outside the Pacific Rim that does not belong to Uralic or Altaic. Except for the papers by Anderson and Harrison, all of the articles were originally written in Russian and they are made available in English here for the first time.
Language Contact in South Central Siberia
Language Contact in South Central Siberia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Contact in South Central Siberia write by Gregory D. S. Anderson. This book was released on 2005. Language Contact in South Central Siberia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume offers a description of the history and linguistic consequences of Russian-Turkic contacts in two adjacent republics in the Altai-Sayan region of south central Siberia, viz. Khakasia and Tuva. First an overview of Russian-Turkic contacts is offered. Next follows a lengthy outline of the standardized form of Khakas to serve as a basis of comparison for the data discussed in subsequent chapters. The complex linguistic history of Abakan, the capital of Khakasia is addressed, in particular what indigenous sources have contributed to the modern urban vernacular. This is in large part the result of intense mixing and amalgamation of the diverse dialects of Khakas. Further the role that Russian has played in shaping the modern speech variety attested in the capital city is examined in detail. Finally, Abakan Khakas data is compared with that of Kyzyl Tuvan, spoken in the capital city of the significantly less Russianized Republic of Tuva. The volume also includes a brief general discussion of the dynamics of language contact and structural change in languages under conditions of contact.
Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond
Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond write by . This book was released on 2016-11-01. Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. According to UNESCO, it is believed that at least half of the nearly 7,000 languages spoken around the world will cease to be used within the next 100 years. If this issue is neglected, people will lose not only their cultural heritage but also invaluable understandings about the history of all humankind. Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond includes the manuscripts of 19 papers that were presented at the 1st International CUA Conference on Endangered Languages, organized by the Caucasus University Association (CUA), at Ardahan, Turkey, on 13 to 16 October 2014. The articles address issues such as the state of the field of documentation, conservation and revitalization of endangered languages with special reference to the endangered languages in the Caucasus region and beyond.
The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
The Language of Hunter-Gatherers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Language of Hunter-Gatherers write by Tom Güldemann. This book was released on 2020-02-27. The Language of Hunter-Gatherers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.
Language Empires in Comparative Perspective
Language Empires in Comparative Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Empires in Comparative Perspective write by Christel Stolz. This book was released on 2015-03-10. Language Empires in Comparative Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The notion of empire is associated with economic and political mechanisms of dominance. For the last decades, however, there has been a lively debate concerning the question whether this concept can be transferred to the field of linguistics, specifically to research on situations of language spread on the one hand and concomitant marginalization of minority languages on the other. The authors who contributed to this volume concur as to the applicability of the notion of empire to language-related issues. They address the processes, potential merits and drawbacks of language spread as well as the marginalization of minority languages, language endangerment and revitalization, contact-induced language change, the emergence of mixed languages, and identity issues. An emphasis is on the dominance of non-Western languages such as Arabic, Chinese, and, particularly, Russian. The studies demonstrate that the emergence, spread and decline of language empires is a promising area of research, particularly from a comparative perspective.
