The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia : : Language Families / / ed. by Edward Vajda.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Berge, Anna,; Bugaeva, Anna,; Dunn, Michael,; Forsberg, Ulla-Maija,; Gruzdeva, Ekaterina,; Janhunen, Juha,; Nikolaeva, Irina,; Németh, Michał,; Oskolskaya, Sofia,; Salminen, Tapani,; Vajda, Edward,
• HerausgeberIn: Vajda, Edward ,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: The World of Linguistics [WOL] ; 10.1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 737 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- I Major language groups of Inner Eurasia -- 1 The Turkic language family -- 2 The Mongolic language family -- 3 The Tungusic language family -- 4 The Samoyed languages -- 5 Khanty dialects -- 6 Mansi dialects -- II Microfamilies of Siberia and Asia’s North Pacific Rim -- 7 The Yukaghir language family -- 8 The Yeniseian language family -- 9 The Amuric language family -- 10 The Ainuic language family -- 11 The Chukotko-Kamchatkan Languages -- 12 The Eskaleut language family