Language contact in Siberia : : Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic loanwords in Yeniseian / / by Bayarma Khabtagaeva.

• VerfasserIn: Khabtagaeva, Bayarma,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Languages of Asia 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 pages).

This monograph dicsusses phonetic, morphological and semantic features of the ‘Altaic’ Sprachbund (i.e. Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic) elements in Yeniseian languages (Kott, Assan, Arin, Pumpokol, Yugh and Ket), a rather heterogeneous language family traditionally classified as one of the ‘Paleo-Siberian’ language groups, that are not related to each other or to any other languages on the face of the planet. The present work is based on a database of approximately 230 Turkic and 70 Tungusic loanwords. A smaller number of loanwords are of Mongolic origin, which came through either the Siberian Turkic languages or the Tungusic Ewenki languages. There are clear linguistic criteria, which help to distinguish loanwords borrowed via Turkic or Tungusic and not directly from Mongolic languages. One of the main outcomes of this research is the establishment of the Yeniseian peculiar features in the Altaic loanwords. The phonetic criteria comprise the regular disappearance of vowel harmony, syncope, amalgamation, aphaeresis and metathesis. Besides, a separate group of lexemes represents hybrid words, id est the lexical elements where one element is Altaic and the other one is Yeniseian. This book presents a historical-etymological survey of a part of the Yeniseian lexicon, which provides an important part of the comparative database of Proto-Yeniseian reconstructions.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- Turkic Loanwords -- Tungusic Loanwords -- Mongolic Loanwords -- Typical Features of Altaic Loanwords in Yeniseian -- False Etymologies or Coincidences -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- References -- Indexes.