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No full textRobbeets Martine. [Рецензия] [Электронный ресурс] / Kyrill Babaev// Вопросы языкового родства . - 2009. - Вып. 2. - С. 144-150. - (Вестник РГГУ. Серия "Филологические науки. Языкознание" ; № 16)
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No full textRobbeets Martine. [Рецензия] [Электронный ресурс] / Kyrill Babaev// Вопросы языкового родства . - 2009. - Вып. 2. - С. 144-150. - (Вестник РГГУ. Серия "Филологические науки. Языкознание" ; № 16)
lexibank/savelyevturkic: Turkic Basic Vocabulary Database
No full textCite the source dataset as
Savelyev, Alexander and Robbeets, Martine (2019): Turkic Basic Vocabularies. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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CLDF dataset derived from Savelyev and Robbeet's "Internal Structure of the Turkic Language Family" from 2020
No full textCite the source dataset as
Savelyev, Alexander and Robbeets, Martine (2019): Turkic Basic Vocabularies. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
'Invisible' loans: how to borrow a bound form
Get PDFIf speech communities are in a long-term intensive contact with each other, they come to share grammatical patterns and actual forms. The Vaupés River Basin linguistic area is characterized by a long-term obligatory multilingualism based on language-determined exogamy. There is a strong cultural inhibition against recognizable loan forms, so as to keep distinct languages diffferent. Tariana, the only Arawak language in the area, has hardly any free forms which are borrowed. There is, however, a fair number of hard-to-recognize borrowed bound forms—verb roots, and grammatical enclitics—in addition to numerous patterns and constructions
developed under contact influence. This goes against popular belief that free morphemes are easier to borrow than bound ones, reflecting the way in which languages tend to influence each other in every possible sphere in diffferent sociolinguistic situations
Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
Get PDFWhy do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their dispersal to the adoption of agriculture by their early speakers. In this volume, their proposal is reassessed by linguists, investigating to what extent the economic dependence on plant cultivation really impacted language spread in various parts of the world. Special attention is paid to "tricky" language families such as Eskimo-Aleut, Quechua, Aymara, Bantu, Indo-European, Transeurasian, Turkic, Japano-Koreanic, Hmong-Mien and Trans-New Guinea, that cannot unequivocally be regarded as instances of Farming/Language Dispersal, even if subsistence played a role in their expansio
Areal diffusion and parallelism in drift: shared grammaticalization patterns
No full textShare features, and especially shared grammaticalization patterns, may result from geographic proximity, contact, and borrowing ("copying"). Related languages "will pass through the same or strikingly similar phases": this "parallelism in drift" (Sapir 1921: 171-172) accounts for additional similarities between related languages, even for those "long disconnected". Parallelism in drift may also account for shared patterns of grammaticalization. The paper explores the ways in which patterns of shared grammaticalization which are demonstrably due to areal diffusion may differ from patterns which can be shown to result from parallelism in drift. To work towards an answer, we focus on the data from two different areas of substantial linguistic diversity: the Arawak languages of northwest Amazonian, and the Ndu languages of the Sepik region of New Guinea
Between copy and cognate: the origin of absolutes in Old and Middle English
No full textThis paper addresses the absolute construction in Old English (OE) (and to some extent Middle English), with special focus on its origin. Earlier research on this topic provides two opposite views: either the construction is considered Latin in origin and is treated as a syntactic loan (Kisbye 1971) or a lexical loan (Timofeeva 2010), or it is regarded as a native, Germanic construction (Bauer 2000). Preference has generally been with the former. I will try to reconcile the earlier accounts while doing away with their respective shortcomings. I will argue that absolutes constitute a native OE construction that was on the brink of disappearing, as is shown by its low frequency in native text material, but was kept alive by the practice of Latin translation. As such, using Johanson’s code copying framework (2002), I defend the claim that the OE absolute is a clear case of ‘selective frequential copying’.status: Accepte
Khalkha Mongolian
No full textThis chapter gives an introduction to the basic structures of Khalkha Mongolian, most of which are similar to those of Mongolian proper in general. Segmental phonology (vowels and consonants) and word structure are analyzed. Major changes from earlier stages of the language are described briefly, as is the writing system, based on the Cyrillic alphabet. Vowel harmony, based on pharyngeality (ATR) and rounding, has several interesting properties, including the opacity of high rounded vowels to rounding harmony. There is a rich derivational and inflectional morphology based on suffixes. Basic syntactic structures, including word order and case marking of arguments in simple and complex clauses, are described, as are the functions of different verb forms (finite verbs, converbs, and participles). The description emphasizes the central place of Mongolian proper in the typology of the Transeurasian languages
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