Turkic (Cambridge Language Surveys)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: New, 7/31/2021
EAN 9780521865357, ISBN10: 0521865352
Hardcover, 1084 pages, 23.5 x 15.9 x 6.4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Turkic is one of the world's major language families, comprising a high number of distinct languages and varieties that display remarkable similarities and notable differences. Written by a leading expert in the field, this landmark work provides an unrivalled overview of multiple features of Turkic, covering structural, functional, historical, sociolinguistic and literary aspects. It presents the history and cultures of the speakers, structures, and use of the whole set of languages within the family, including Turkish, Azeri, Turkmen, Tatar, Kazakh, Uzbek, and Uyghur, and gives a comprehensive overview of published works on Turkic languages, large and small. It also provides an innovative theoretical framework, employing a unified terminology and transcription, to give new insights into the Turkic linguistic type. Requiring no previous knowledge of the Turkic languages, it will be welcomed by both general readers, as well as academic researchers and students of linguistic typology, comparative linguistics, and Turkic studies.
1. Introduction
2. Technicalities
3. The Turkic language family
4. Turcia, the Turkic world
5. Status
6. Historical backgrounds
7. Cultures
8. Linguistic periodizations
9. Registers of orature and literature
10. Language contacts
11. Lexicon
12. Sound types
13. Prime syllables
14. Phonemes in prime syllables
15. Polysyllabic word forms
16. Diachronic phonology
17. Diachrony
vowels
18. Diachrony
consonants
19. Writing systems
20. Morphology
generalities
21. Nominals
nouns
22. Nominals
noun inflection
23. Nominals
adjectives
24. Nominals
pronominals
25. Quantifiers and numerals
26. Postpositions
27. Copular devices
28. Verb stems
29. Postverbial constructions
30. Finite verbals
31. Verbals
viewpoint aspect
32. Old intraterminals
aorists
33. Focal intraterminals
34. Postterminals
35. Terminals
36. Imperatives
37. Modality
38. Voluntatives
39. Optatives
40. Hypotheticals
41. Further modals
42. Copular particles of thematic bases
43. Non-finite verbals
44. Participant nominals
45. Action nominals
46. Converbs
47. Adverbs
48. Function words
49. Interjections
50. Word accents
51. Syntactic levels
52. Nominal phrases
53. Verbal phrases
54. Main clauses
55. Non-main clauses
56. Sentences
57. Above the sentence level
58. Prosody
59. Functional synopses.