The Turkic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415082005 ISBN 13: 9780415082006

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

The Turkic Languages examines the modern languages within this wide-ranging language family and gives an historical overview of their development.The first part covers generalities, providing an introduction to the grammatical traditions, subgrouping and writing systems of this language family.
The latter part of the book focuses on descriptions of the individual languages themselves. Each language description gives an overview of the language followed by detail on phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and dialects. The language chapters are similarly structured to enable the reader to access and compare information easily.
Each chapter represents a self-contained article written by a recognised expert in the field. Suggestions are made for the most useful sources of further reading and the work is comprehensively indexed.

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Synopsis

The Turkic Languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area stretching from the Balkans to the Arctic Ocean and from southern Iran to the great wall of China. There are currently twenty literary languages in the group, the most important among them being Turkish (which has over fifty million speakers); other major languages covered are Azerbaijanian, Bashkir, Chuvash, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Tatar, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek and Yakut. The Turkic Languages is the first reference book for almost forty years to bring together detailed discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic structures and features of the languages in the Turkic family. Seen from a linguistic typology point of view, Turkic languages are particularly interesting because of their astonishing morphosyntactic regularity, their vast geographical distribution and their great stability over time. Each chapter combines modern linguistic analysis with traditional historical linguistics; a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages.

Written by an international team of experts, The Turkic Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, Turcology and Near Eastern and Oriental Studies. Professor Hendrik Boeschoten, University of Tilburg, Netherlands, Professor Lars Johanson, University of Mainz, Germany, Andras Rona-Tas, Szeged, Hungary, Professor Dr Marcel E

About the Author

Johanson is at the University of Mainz, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415082005
• ISBN 13: 9780415082006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 504
• Editor: Johanson Lars, Csató Éva Á.