Written by a world-leading Turcologist, this landmark volume provides a comprehensive overview of the Turkic language family. It covers the history and cultures of the speakers, structures, and use of a vast range of languages, making it essential reading for scholars and students in linguistics and Turkic studies.
Written by a world-leading Turcologist, this landmark volume provides a comprehensive overview of the Turkic language family. It covers the history and cultures of the speakers, structures, and use of a vast range of languages, making it essential reading for scholars and students in linguistics and Turkic studies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lars Johanson has published on descriptive and historical linguistics, especially pioneering contributions on aspect-mood-tense, language contacts, and typology. He is instrumental in transforming Turcology into a linguistic discipline. He edits the journal Turkic Languages and the monograph series Turcologica.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. Technicalities 3. The Turkic language family 4. Turcia, the Turkic world 5. Status 6. Historical backgrounds 7. Cultures 8. Linguistic periodizations 9. Registers of orature and literature 10. Language contacts 11. Lexicon 12. Sound types 13. Prime syllables 14. Phonemes in prime syllables 15. Polysyllabic word forms 16. Diachronic phonology 17. Diachrony: vowels 18. Diachrony: consonants 19. Writing systems 20. Morphology: generalities 21. Nominals: nouns 22. Nominals: noun inflection 23. Nominals: adjectives 24. Nominals: pronominals 25. Quantifiers and numerals 26. Postpositions 27. Copular devices 28. Verb stems 29. Postverbial constructions 30. Finite verbals 31. Verbals: viewpoint aspect 32. Old intraterminals: aorists 33. Focal intraterminals 34. Postterminals 35. Terminals 36. Imperatives 37. Modality 38. Voluntatives 39. Optatives 40. Hypotheticals 41. Further modals 42. Copular particles of thematic bases 43. Non-finite verbals 44. Participant nominals 45. Action nominals 46. Converbs 47. Adverbs 48. Function words 49. Interjections 50. Word accents 51. Syntactic levels 52. Nominal phrases 53. Verbal phrases 54. Main clauses 55. Non-main clauses 56. Sentences 57. Above the sentence level 58. Prosody 59. Functional synopses.
