Diachronic Aspects of Russianisms in Siberian Turkic

Preaspiration in the Nordic Languages Synchronic and diachronic aspects

Preaspiration — the production of glottal friction at the juncture of a vowel and a consonant — appears to be typologically rare but is an areal linguistic feature of Northwestern Europe. This study contains a survey of the known geographical spread of preaspirated stops, their phonological distribution and phonetic expressions in some Nordic dialects. The study also suggests a reconstruction o...

Review of Lars Johanson and Christiane Bulut (eds) Turkic-Iranian Contact Areas. Historical and Linguistic Aspects

Siberian Languages in Contact, 1: Collective Numerals in Yakut, Dolgan, Tuvinian, Tofalar 1and Some Other Turkic Languages*

Morphological categories of Siberian Turkic numerals are particularly complex and therefore deemed to be especially advantageous to areal investiga tions. The aim of this paper is to see whether (at least some of) the suffixes of collective numerals can readily be used as isogloss connecting Yakut and Dolgan with Tuvinian and Tofalar or, maybe, also some other Turkic languages.

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Turkic Identity and the Depoliticization of Culture: A Case Study of the International Organization of Turkic Culture (TÃœRKSOY)

Since its installation as the new capital of Kazakhstan in 1997, Astana has served as an urban synecdoche for the country's post-Soviet nation-building project. Boasting a futuristic architectural landscape punctuated with abstract references to the past, the city melds universalizing aesthetics with a mythological historical narrative. My paper explores Kazakhstan's nation-building project thr...