Structural Factors in Turkic Language Contacts

ISBN-13: 9781138983076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 200 str.

Lars Johanson;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Contact between Turkic and non-Turkic languages is examined here in this text on language contact which also investigates the social and structural factors involved in the phenomenon.

Spis treści

Introduction By Bernard Comrie 1. Code Copying in Turkic Language Contacts 1.1 Questions 1.2 Turkic language contacts 1.3 Code copying 1.4 Turkic characteristics 2. The Role of Structural Factors 2.1 Suggested restrictions 2.2 Scales of Stability 2.3 Attractiveness 2.4 Attractive features 2.5 Social factors 2.6 Structuredness 2.7 Relative attractiveness 2.8 Differences between languages 2.9 Deep influence 2.10 Types of influence involved in language maintenance and language shift 3. Structural Copying in Various Linguistic Domains 3.1 Turkic-non-Turkic convergence 3.2 Phonological features 3.3 Word structure 3.4 Grammatical categories 3.5 Syntactic combinational patterns 4. General and Areal Tendencies 4.1 General tendencies 4.2 Sources of areal tendencies 4.3 Early levelling of Turkic? 4.4 Similarities in the most stable substructures Notes References Index

O autorze

Lars Johanson