The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families

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ISBN 10: 3110554038 / ISBN 13: 9783110554038

Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024

2024. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9783110554038

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Edward Vajda, Bellingham, USA.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Languages and Linguistics of Northern ...
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New