The Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures.

The Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures. / Volume 1, : The Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures, 1 / / ed. by Gerd Carling.

The notion of cultural aspects of language variation and change is a growing field. However, collective works on the current stance within this domain are still scarce. The Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures embraces a substantial part of the Eurasian continent and equips the reader to better ob...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
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Carling, Gerd,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:The Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures ; Volume 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XXXII, 728 p.) :; Ca. 150 Ktn.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Funding and support
  • Abbreviations
  • Orthographic conventions for Caucasian languages
  • Overview of conventions
  • Overview of tables
  • Overview of figures
  • Overview of maps
  • Overview of appendices
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical backdrop: words, things, and humans in their environment
  • 3. Language: classification, reconstruction, and principles of change
  • 4. Description of the database Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics
  • 5. Atlas: Grammar
  • 6. Atlas: Lexicon
  • 7. Concluding chapter: an integrated view of the linguistic and cultural histories of Eurasia
  • Literature
  • Appendix 1: Languages of the current atlas
  • Appendix 2a: Grammar: Features, complete list (from DiACL)
  • Appendix 2b: Grammar: State combinations
  • Appendix 2c: Grammar: State combinations in languages
  • Appendix 2d: Grammar: Solutions 1–10 by Structure
  • Appendix 3a: Lexicon: list of concepts, coverage by family
  • Appendix 3b: Lexical data
  • Appendix 3c: Lexical data: statistics
  • Appendix 3d: Lexicon: Source language data, flow map
  • Appendix 4a: Language consultants
  • Appendix 4b: Literary sources
  • Appendix 4c: Geographical sources
  • Map Credits
  • Index

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