Turkic / Lars Johanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johanson, Lars, 1936- author.

Series:

Cambridge language surveys.

Cambridge language surveys

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkic languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 1063 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Turkic is one of the world's major language families, comprising a high number of distinct languages and varieties that display remarkable similarities and notable differences. Written by a leading expert in the field, this landmark work provides an unrivalled overview of multiple features of Turkic, covering structural, functional, historical, sociolinguistic and literary aspects. It presents the history and cultures of the speakers, structures, and use of the whole set of languages within the family, including Turkish, Azeri, Turkmen, Tatar, Kazakh, Uzbek, and Uyghur, and gives a comprehensive overview of published works on Turkic languages, large and small. It also provides an innovative theoretical framework, employing a unified terminology and transcription, to give new insights into the Turkic linguistic type. Requiring no previous knowledge of the Turkic languages, it will be welcomed by both general readers, as well as academic researchers and students of linguistic typology, comparative linguistics, and Turkic studies.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

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 Nonfinite 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 Nonmain Clauses

56 Sentences

57 Above the Sentence Level

58 Prosody

59 Functional Synopses

References

Index of linguistics and historical backgrounds

Index of languages and dialects

Index of subjects.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Aug 2021).

ISBN:

1-009-03841-9

1-009-03821-4

1-139-01670-9

OCLC:

1256591396