Languages and prehistory of central Siberia [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Edward J. Vajda

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Disciplina: 409/.57
• Soggetto geografico: Siberia (Russia) Languages; Siberia (Russia) Civilization
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: VajdaEdward J DulʹzonA. P (Andreĭ Petrovich)
• Note generali: "Papers brought together in honor of Andreas Dulson."--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: LANGUAGES AND PREHISTORY OF CENTRAL SIBERIA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; THE LANGUAGES OF CENTRAL SIBERIA INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW; YENISEIC COUNTING SYSTEMS; PATTERNS OF PLURAL FORMATION IN KOTT NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES; ON DISTINGUISHING LOANWORDS FROM THE ORIGINAL PROTO-YENISEIC LEXICON; INCORPORATION AND WORD FORMATION IN KET; MORPHOLOGICAL REANALYSIS IN THE SELKUP VERB; SYNONYMY, ALLOMORPHY, AND FREE VARIATION IN SELKUP DERIVATIONAL SUFFIXES; THE SELKUP WORLDVIEW AS REFLECTED IN BASIC NUMBER WORDS ; SHARED SELKUP-KET TERMINOLOGY IN RITUAL AND SPIRITUAL CULTURESHAMAN AND BEAR SIBERIAN PREHISTORY IN TWO MIDDLE CHULYM TEXTS; SOUTH SIBERIAN SOUND SYMBOLISM; LINGUISTIC REFLECTIONS OF XAKAS ETHNOHISTORY; CULTURAL ORIGINS OF THE TAIGA-DWELLING PEOPLES OF THE MIDDLE YENISEI; A PALEOASIATIC SUBSTRATE AMONG THE KET: EVIDENCE FROM SUNK EN EARTH DWELLINGS; PREHISTORIC CULTURAL LINKS ALONG THE YENISEI REVELATIONS FROM A BRONZE IDOL; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The twelve articles in this volume describe Yeniseic, Samoyedic and Siberian Turkic languages as a linguistic complex of great interest to typologists, grammarians, diachronic and synchronic linguists, as well as cultural anthropologists. The articles demonstrate how interdependent the disparate languages spoken in this area actually are. Individual articles discuss borrowing and language replacement, as well as compare the development of language subsystems, such as numeral words in Ket and Selkup. Three of the articles also discuss the historical and anthropological origins of the tribes of
• Titolo autorizzato: Languages and prehistory of central Siberia
• ISBN: 1-283-31202-6; 9786613312020; 90-272-7516-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457422903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. : Series IV, . -Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 262.