Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
2011
ISBN:
9783110184174
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics Documentation ; 23
Content:
Biographical note: Michael Fortescue is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Content:
This volume is the first comprehensive comparative dictionary to cover the whole of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan ('Paleosiberian') family. Reconstructions for both the proto-Chukotian and Proto-Chukokto-Kamchatkan levels are set up. Separate sections on inflections and derivational affixes and an outline of what is known of the (pre-)historical background are included. The genealogical status of this family has long been controversial, but its coherence as a family can now be considered as proven. Its geographical position between Siberia and northernmost America provides it with particular importance as regards attempts to relate the languages and peoples of the Old World with those of the New. This dictionary is aimed at scholars andstudents of linguistic typology and historical linguistics in general as well as to a smaller audience of specialists in the field of Paleosiberian language studies. The dictionary makes the typologically interesting Paleosiberian language groups more accessible to linguistic researchers who do not read Russian.
Content:
Review text: "In sum, Fortescue's comparative dictionary sets a benchmark for historical Chukotko-Kamchatkan linguists that is unlikely to be surpassed using any currently understood technique of historical reconstruction."Jonathan David Bobaljik in: Sibirica 1/2007 "[...] an important and fascinating new work by Michael Fortescue."Steven A. Jacobson in: Études Inuit 1-2/2005
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110184176
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110925388
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fortescue, Michael D., 1946 - Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2005 ISBN 3110184176
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-11-092538-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
Tschukotisch
;
Kontrastive Lexikologie
;
Wörterbuch
;
Wörterbuch
DOI:
10.1515/9783110925388
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Fortescue, Michael D. 1946-
