On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia
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On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia
（Studies in language companion series / series editors, Werner Abraham, Michael Noonan, v. 164）
John Benjamins, c2014
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"This collection of articles deals with structural typology and discourse semantics of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia. The articles are from the Neo-LENCA IV workshop which took place Aug. 28, 2012-Sept. 1, 2012 at Stockholm University as a part of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) (LENCA = (Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia)."--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume, some articles are summaries of large areal typological research projects, and some articles focus on structures or constructions in a single language. However, it is common to all the articles that they investigate phenomena that have not been examined previously, or they apply a new framework to a topic. The volume will be of interest to scholars with a focus on this broad geographic region, typologists, historical linguists and discourse analysts. The uniqueness of this volume is that it brings together work on a genetically diverse set of languages that have some shared areal traits.
Table of Contents
- 1. List of contributors
- 2. Preface
- 3. Introduction (by Suihkonen, Pirkko)
- 4. I. Verbal Categories and Processes in Categorizations
- 5. The tense-aspect system of Khorchin Mongolian (by Brosig, Benjamin)
- 6. Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language (by Nevskaya, Irina)
- 7. Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism:: Data from Xibe (by Jang, Taeho)
- 8. II. Syntactic Functions and Case-Marking
- 9. Spatial semantics, case and relator nouns in Evenki (by Grenoble, Lenore A.)
- 10. A survey of alignment features in the Greater Hindukush with special references to Indo-Aryan (by Liljegren, Henrik)
- 11. Between predicative and attributive possession in Bashkir (by Ovsjannikova, Maria)
- 12. III. Clause Combining and Discourse
- 13. Areal features of copula sentences in Karaim as spoken in Lithuania (by Csato, Eva Agnes)
- 14. Non-past copular markers in Turkish (by Karakoc, Birsel)
- 15. On the distribution of the contrastive-concessive discourse connectives ama 'but/yet' and fakat 'but' in written Turkish (by Zeyrek, Deniz)
- 16. Anaphora in Ossetic correlatives and the typology of clause combining (by Belyaev, Oleg)
- 17. Kinds of evidentiality in German complement clauses (by Kostrova, Olga A)
- 18. Evidentiality in Dzungar Tuvan (by Rind-Pawlowski, Monika)
- 19. IV. Historical Issues
- 20. On the evolution of Russian subject reference: Internal factors (by Sidorova, Evgeniya)
- 21. The development of negation in the Transeurasian languages (by Robbeets, Martine)
- 22. List of Index
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