Full Description
The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume, some articles are summaries of large areal typological research projects, and some articles focus on structures or constructions in a single language. However, it is common to all the articles that they investigate phenomena that have not been examined previously, or they apply a new framework to a topic. The volume will be of interest to scholars with a focus on this broad geographic region, typologists, historical linguists and discourse analysts. The uniqueness of this volume is that it brings together work on a genetically diverse set of languages that have some shared areal traits.
Contents
1. List of contributors; 2. Preface; 3. Introduction (by Suihkonen, Pirkko); 4. I. Verbal Categories and Processes in Categorizations; 5. The tense-aspect system of Khorchin Mongolian (by Brosig, Benjamin); 6. Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language (by Nevskaya, Irina); 7. Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism:: Data from Xibe (by Jang, Taeho); 8. II. Syntactic Functions and Case-Marking; 9. Spatial semantics, case and relator nouns in Evenki (by Grenoble, Lenore A.); 10. A survey of alignment features in the Greater Hindukush with special references to Indo-Aryan (by Liljegren, Henrik); 11. Between predicative and attributive possession in Bashkir (by Ovsjannikova, Maria); 12. III. Clause Combining and Discourse; 13. Areal features of copula sentences in Karaim as spoken in Lithuania (by Csato, Eva Agnes); 14. Non-past copular markers in Turkish (by Karakoc, Birsel); 15. On the distribution of the contrastive-concessive discourse connectives ama 'but/yet' and fakat 'but' in written Turkish (by Zeyrek, Deniz); 16. Anaphora in Ossetic correlatives and the typology of clause combining (by Belyaev, Oleg); 17. Kinds of evidentiality in German complement clauses (by Kostrova, Olga A); 18. Evidentiality in Dzungar Tuvan (by Rind-Pawlowski, Monika); 19. IV. Historical Issues; 20. On the evolution of Russian subject reference: Internal factors (by Sidorova, Evgeniya); 21. The development of negation in the Transeurasian languages (by Robbeets, Martine); 22. List of Index
