On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia

Editors

Pirkko Suihkonen

| University of Helsinki

Lindsay J. Whaley

| Dartmouth College

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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.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 164] 2014. xviii, 437 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.164

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii–viii
Preface	ix–x
Introduction Pirkko Suihkonen and Lindsay J. Whaley	xi–xviii
I. Verbal Categories and Processes in Categorizations
The tense-aspect system of Khorchin Mongolian Benjamin Brosig	1–66
Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language Irina Nevskaya	67–90
Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism:: Data from Xibe Taeho Jang and Thomas E. Payne	91–108
II. Syntactic Functions and Case-Marking
Spatial semantics, case and relator nouns in Evenki Lenore A. Grenoble	109–132
A survey of alignment features in the Greater Hindukush with special references to Indo-Aryan Henrik Liljegren	133–174
Between predicative and attributive possession in Bashkir Maria Ovsjannikova and Sergey Say	175–202
III. Clause Combining and Discourse
Areal features of copula sentences in Karaim as spoken in Lithuania Éva Ágnes Csató	203–220
Non-past copular markers in Turkish Birsel Karakoç	221–250
On the distribution of the contrastive-concessive discourse connectives ama ‘but/yet’ and fakat ‘but’ in written Turkish Deniz Zeyrek	251–274
Anaphora in Ossetic correlatives and the typology of clause combining Oleg Belyaev	275–310
Kinds of evidentiality in German complement clauses Olga A Kostrova	311–338
Evidentiality in Dzungar Tuvan Monika Rind-Pawlowski	339–378
IV. Historical Issues
On the evolution of Russian subject reference: Internal factors Evgeniya Sidorova	379–400
The development of negation in the Transeurasian languages Martine Robbeets	401–420
List of Index	421–438

Subjects

Linguistics

Typology

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2014027550