On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia
Editors
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
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of contributors | pp. vii–viii
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Preface | pp. ix–x
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IntroductionPirkko Suihkonen and Lindsay J. Whaley | pp. xi–xviii
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I. Verbal Categories and Processes in Categorizations
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The tense-aspect system of Khorchin MongolianBenjamin Brosig | pp. 1–66
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Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic languageIrina Nevskaya | pp. 67–90
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Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism:: Data from XibeTaeho Jang and Thomas E. Payne | pp. 91–108
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II. Syntactic Functions and Case-Marking
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Spatial semantics, case and relator nouns in EvenkiLenore A. Grenoble | pp. 109–132
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A survey of alignment features in the Greater Hindukush with special references to Indo-AryanHenrik Liljegren | pp. 133–174
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Between predicative and attributive possession in BashkirMaria Ovsjannikova and Sergey Say | pp. 175–202
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III. Clause Combining and Discourse
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Areal features of copula sentences in Karaim as spoken in LithuaniaÉva Ágnes Csató | pp. 203–220
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Non-past copular markers in TurkishBirsel Karakoç | pp. 221–250
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On the distribution of the contrastive-concessive discourse connectives ama ‘but/yet’ and fakat ‘but’ in written TurkishDeniz Zeyrek | pp. 251–274
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Anaphora in Ossetic correlatives and the typology of clause combiningOleg Belyaev | pp. 275–310
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Kinds of evidentiality in German complement clausesOlga A Kostrova | pp. 311–338
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Evidentiality in Dzungar TuvanMonika Rind-Pawlowski | pp. 339–378
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IV. Historical Issues
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On the evolution of Russian subject reference: Internal factorsEvgeniya Sidorova | pp. 379–400
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The development of negation in the Transeurasian languagesMartine Robbeets | pp. 401–420
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List of Index | pp. 421–438
Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General