Language contact and areal convergence in north asia: The case of ket

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2021
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Schlagworte:
  • Ket
  • Morphology
  • Northeast Asia
  • Typology
  • Yeniseian language
Beschreibung:
  • Ket is the sole surviving member of the Yeniseian language family, spoken in the central part of North Asia. This large territory is also home to other language families: Samoyedic, Ob-Ugric, Tungusic, and Turkic. Apart from Yeniseian, which are strikingly different, all the language groups in the area conform to a common typological profile. A closer inspection reveals that over the course of century-long contacts, many of the core grammatical features that set Yeniseian apart from the rest of the families have undergone typological accommodation, at least in Modern Ket, to mimic the dominant language type in the area. The aim of the present article is to provide an overview of how typological accommodation affected the phonemic tones and nominal and verbal morphology in Modern Ket as well as to show that this peculiar phenomenon is also attested at the syntactic level in formation of adverbial and relative clauses.
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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