Structural Factors in Turkic Language ContactsTurkic languages present particularly rich sources of data for the study of language contact, given the number and diversity of languages with which they have been in contact. Many common, false generalisations are laid bare and the methodology used in evaluating particular instances of language contact can also be used with profit by students of languages other than the Turkic. |
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actant adjective adverbial Altaic languages areal areas aspect-tense attractive attributes Azerbaijanian Boeschoten Chuvash combinational patterns complex conjunctions constituent clauses contact languages contact situations contact-induced converbial clauses convergence corresponding Dawkins diachronic display Doerfer e.g. Turkish elements example foreign influence forms free junctors function Gagauz genetic genitive globally copied grammatical Indo-European inflectional Iranian Iranian languages Johanson Karaim Kashkay language contact leftbranching less lexeme lexical linguistic main clause Middle Persian mixed copies Modern Persian modify Mongolian Mongolic morphemes morphological nominal nonfinite northern Tajik nouns Ottoman participle particles phenomena phonological plural possessive suffixes postpositive postverbial constructions predicate core prepositive primary stem processes pronouns relative clauses result selective copying semantic sentence similar simplifying Slavic Slavic languages Slobin Soper spoken subjunctors subordinate clauses syntactic syntax synthetic structure Tajik tendencies Turkic influence Turkic languages Turkic type typical typological units Uyghur Uzbek varieties verb verbal system vowels Western Armenian Windfuhr word order
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