A Grammar of Dolgan : A Northern Siberian Turkic Language of the Taimyr Peninsula / Chris Lasse Däbritz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Däbritz, Chris Lasse, author.

Series:

Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages ; 18.

Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages Series ; Volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkic languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv, [2022]

Summary:

Dolgan is a severely endangered Turkic language spoken in the extreme north of the Russian Federation which has undergone noticeable substrate influence and thus exhibits grammatical structures differing from other Turkic languages. The grammar at hand is the first fully-fledged grammar of Dolgan in English language: It describes the Dolgan language system from an internal perspective basing on corpus data of natural Dolgan speech. It takes historical, comparative and typological perspectives, if applicable, but refrains from pertaining to a particular linguistic theory. Consequently, both Turcologists and general linguists can make use of it independently from their individual research question.

Contents:

Intro

‎Contents

‎Preface

‎Abbreviations

‎Charts, Figures and Maps

‎Chapter 1. Introduction

‎1.1. How to Read This Book

‎1.2. The Speakers of Dolgan

‎1.3. Historical and Ethnographical Background

‎1.4. Traditional Way of Life

‎1.5. The Language

‎1.6. Material and Data

‎Chapter 2. Phonology and Phonetics

‎2.1. Vowel System

‎2.2. Consonant System

‎2.3. Phonotactics

‎2.4. Prosody

‎2.5. Morphonological Processes

‎Chapter 3. Word Classes

‎3.1. Nouns

‎3.2. Adjectives

‎3.3. Pronouns

‎3.4. Numerals and Quantifiers

‎3.5. Verbs

‎3.6. Adverbs

‎3.7. Postpositions

‎3.8. Particles and Clitics

‎3.9. Interjections, Conversational Formulas and Onomatopoeia

‎Chapter 4. Nominal Inflectional Morphology

‎4.1. Number

‎4.2. Case

‎4.3. Possession

‎4.4. Predicate Forms of Nominals

‎Chapter 5. Pronominal Inflectional Morphology

‎5.1. Personal Pronouns

‎5.2. Other Pro-Forms

‎Chapter 6. Verbal Inflectional Morphology

‎6.1. Verbal Stems

‎6.2. Sets of Personal Endings

‎6.3. Non-finite Verb Forms

‎6.4. Tense-Aspect Forms

‎6.5. Mood, Modality and Illocution

‎6.6. Evidentiality

‎Chapter 7. Non-clausal Syntax

‎7.1. Noun Phrase

‎7.2. Adjective Phrase

‎7.3. Verb Phrase

‎7.4. Adpositional Phrase

‎7.5. Adverb Phrase

‎Chapter 8. Clausal Syntax-Simple Clauses

‎8.1. Verbal Predication

‎8.2. Non-Verbal Predication

‎8.3. Syntax of Adverbials

‎8.4. Non-declarative Clauses

‎8.5. Negation in Simple Clauses

‎Chapter 9. Clausal Syntax-Complex Clauses

‎9.1. Clause Chaining

‎9.2. Coordination

‎9.3. Subordination

‎Chapter 10. Discourse Organization

‎10.1. Word Order

‎10.2. Information Structure

‎10.3. Reference Tracking and Information Status

‎10.4. False Starts, Fillers and Placeholder Items.

‎10.5. Direct and Indirect Speech

‎Chapter 11. Lexicon

‎11.1. Semantic Fields

‎11.2. Loanwords

‎Chapter 12. Derivational Processes

‎12.1. Nominal &gt

Nominal

‎12.2. Verb &gt

‎12.3. Nominal &gt

Verb

‎12.4. Verb &gt

‎Chapter 13. Sample Texts

‎13.1. Text 1: The Reindeer and the Mouse

‎13.2. Text 2: Dolgan Birth Customs

‎13.3. Text 3: Discussing the Correct Order

‎13.4. Text 4: We Hit the Road Again

‎13.5. Text 5: Khatanga's School-90 Years

‎References

‎Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

The book is the first corpus-based and complete description of Dolgan, a Turkic Language from the Taymyr Peninsula (Russia), analyzing its grammatical structure from a language-internal perspective. It aims at documenting the language and making it accessible for a wide range of potential users.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004516427

9004516425

OCLC:

1344161495

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004516427 DOI