Comparative Chukotko Kamchatkan Dictionary
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Comparative Chukotko Kamchatkan Dictionary
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Author : Michael Fortescue
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-12-22
Comparative Chukotko Kamchatkan Dictionary written by Michael Fortescue and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume is the first comprehensive comparative dictionary to cover the whole of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family. The genealogical status of this family (whether from a common source or due to convergence) has long been controversial, but its coherence as a family can now be taken as proven. Its geographical position between Siberia and northernmost America renders it crucial in any attempt to relate the languages and peoples of these large linguistic regions. The dictionary consists of cognate sets arranged alphabetically according to reconstructed proto-forms and covers all published lexical sources for the languages concerned (plus a good deal of unpublished material). The criterion for setting up Proto-Chukotian sets is the existence of clear cognates in at least two of the four languages: Chukchi, Koryak, Alutor, and (now extinct) Kerek, and for Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan sets cognates in at least one of these plus Itelmen. Internal loans between the two branches of the family are indicated - this is particularly important in the case of the many loans from Koryak to modern western Itelmen. Proto-Itelmen sets without clear cognates in Chukotian are listed separately, without reconstructions. The data is presented in a reader-friendly format, with each set divided into separate lines for the individual languages concerned and with a common orthography for all reliable modern forms (given as full word stems, not just 'roots'). The introduction contains information on the distribution of the individual languages and dialects and all sound correspondences relating them, plus a sketch of what is known of their (pre)historical background. Inflections and derivational affixes are treated in separate sections, and Chukchi and English proto-form indexes allows multiple routes of access to the data. A full reference list of sources is included.
Comparative Chukotko Kamchatkan Dictionary With Inflectional Paradigms
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Author : Michael Fortescue
language : un
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Comparative Chukotko Kamchatkan Dictionary With Inflectional Paradigms written by Michael Fortescue and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary
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Author : Steven A. Jacobson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary written by Steven A. Jacobson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary
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Author : Michael D. Fortescue
language : en
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Release Date : 2010
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary written by Michael D. Fortescue and has been published by University of Alaska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Foreign Language Study categories.
"Compares cognates found in the modern Eskimo languages ranging from northeastern Siberia, across Alaska and Canada, to East Greenland. Includes five Inuit dialect groups, the four Yupik languages, and Sirenikski. Aleut cognates are added when available"--Provided by publisher.
Comparative Wakashan Dictionary
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Author : Michael D. Fortescue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Comparative Wakashan Dictionary written by Michael D. Fortescue and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Wakashan languages categories.
Orientation Systems Of The North Pacific Rim
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Author : Michael D. Fortescue
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2011
Orientation Systems Of The North Pacific Rim written by Michael D. Fortescue and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with North Pacific Region categories.
Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim is an extension of the author's earlier volume Eskimo Orientation Systems (also published in the series Monographs on Greenland | Meddelelser om Grønland, Man & Society, 1988). This time it covers all the contiguous languages ? and cultures ? across the northern Pacific rim from Vancouver Island in Canada to Hokkaido in northern Japan, plus the adjacent Arctic coasts of Alaska and Chukotka. These form a testing ground for recent theories concerning the nature and classification of orientation systems and their shared ?frames of reference?, in particular the many varieties of ?landmark? systems typifying the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Despite the wide variety of languages spoken here (all of them endangered), there is much in common as regards their overlapping geographical settings and the ways in which terms for orientation within the microcosm (the house) and within the macrocosm (the surrounding environment) mesh throughout the region. This is illustrated with numerous maps and diagrams, from both coastal and inland sites. Attention is paid to ambiguities and anomalies within the systems revealed by the data, as these may be clues to pre-historic movements of the populations concerned ? from a riverine setting to the coast, from the coast to inland, or more complex successive displacements. Cultural factors over and beyond environmental determinism are discussed within this broad context.
Katuic Comparative Dictionary
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Author : Ilia Peiros
language : en
Publisher: Department of Linguistics Research Udies Australian National Uni
Release Date : 1996
Katuic Comparative Dictionary written by Ilia Peiros and has been published by Department of Linguistics Research Udies Australian National Uni this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Language Relations Across The Bering Strait
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Author : Michael Fortescue
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1998-11-01
Language Relations Across The Bering Strait written by Michael Fortescue and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In building up a scenario for the arrival on the shores of Alaska of speakers of languages related to Eskimo-Aleut with genetic roots deep within Sineria, this book touches upon a number of issues in contemporary historical linguistics and archaeology. The Arctic "gateway" to the New World, by acting as a bottleneck, has allowed only small groups of mobile hunter-gatherers through during specific propitious periods, and thus provides a unique testing ground for theories about population and language movements in pre-agricultural times. Owing to the historically attested prevalence of language shifts and other contact phenomena in the region, it is arguable that the spread of genes and the spread of language have been out of step since the earliest reconstructable times, contrary to certain views of their linkage. Proposals that have been put forward in the past concerning the affiliations of Eskimo-Aleut languages are followed up in the light of recent progress in reconstructing the proto-languages concerned. Those linking Eskimo-Aleut with the Uralic languages and Yukagir are particularly promising, and reconstructions for many common elements are presented. The entire region "Great Beringia" is scoured for typological evidence in the form of anomalies and constellations of uncommon traits diagnostic of affiliation or contact. The various threads lead back to mesolithic times in south central Siberia, when speakers of a "Uralo-Siberian" mesh of related languages appears to have moved along the major waterways of Siberia. Such a scenario would acount for the present distribution of these languages and the results of their meeting with remnants of earlier linguistic waves from the Old World to the New.
The Languages And Linguistics Of Northern Asia
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Author : Edward Vajda
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-03-04
The Languages And Linguistics Of Northern Asia written by Edward Vajda and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: A Comprehensive Guide surveys the indigenous languages of Asia’s North Pacific Rim, Siberia, and adjacent portions of Inner Eurasia. It provides in-depth descriptions of every first-order family of this vast area, with special emphasis on family-internal subdivision and dialectal differentiation. Individual chapters trace the origins and expansion of the region’s widespread pastoral-based language groups as well as the microfamilies and isolates spoken by northern Asia’s surviving hunter-gatherers. Separate chapters cover sparsely recorded languages of early Inner Eurasia that defy precise classification and the various pidgins and creoles spread over the region. Other chapters investigate the typology of salient linguistic features of the area, including vowel harmony, noun inflection, verb indexing (also known as agreement), complex morphologies, and the syntax of complex predicates. Issues relating to genealogical ancestry, areal contact and language endangerment receive equal attention. With historical connections both to Eurasia’s pastoral-based empires as well as to ancient population movements into the Americas, the steppes, taiga forests, tundra and coastal fringes of northern Asia offer a complex and fascinating object of linguistic investigation.
A Typology Of Questions In Northeast Asia And Beyond
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Author : Andreas Hölzl
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2018-08-29
A Typology Of Questions In Northeast Asia And Beyond written by Andreas Hölzl and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This study investigates the distribution of linguistic and specifically structural diversity in Northeast Asia (NEA), defined as the region north of the Yellow River and east of the Yenisei. In particular, it analyzes what is called the grammar of questions (GQ), i.e., those aspects of any given language that are specialized for asking questions or regularly combine with these. The bulk of the study is a bottom-up description and comparison of GQs in the languages of NEA. The addition of the phrase and beyond to the title of this study serves two purposes. First, languages such as Turkish and Chuvash are included, despite the fact that they are spoken outside of NEA, since they have ties to (or even originated in) the region. Second, despite its focus on one area, the typology is intended to be applicable to other languages as well. Therefore, it makes extensive use of data from languages outside of NEA. The restriction to one category is necessary for reasons of space and clarity, and the process of zooming in on one region allows a higher resolution and historical accuracy than is usually the case in linguistic typology. The discussion mentions over 450 languages and dialects from NEA and beyond and gives about 900 glossed examples. The aim is to achieve both a cross-linguistically plausible typology and a maximal resolution of the linguistic diversity of Northeast Asia.