Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, Seite 742-1251)
ISBN:
9783111378381
,
9783111378466
Series Statement:
The world of linguistics volume 10,2
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111378220
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The world of linguistics ; Volume 10,2: The languages and linguistics of Northern Asia: Typology, morphosyntax and socio-historical perspectives Berlin : de Gruyter Mouton, 2024 ISBN 9783111378220
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3111378225
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783111378381
Author information:
Hock, Hans Henrich 1938-