Turkic is one of the world's major language families, comprising a high number of distinct languages and varieties that display remarkable similarities and notable differences. Written by a leading expert in the field, this landmark work provides an unrivalled overview of multiple features of Turkic, covering structural, functional, historical, sociolinguistic and literary aspects. It presents the history and cultures of the speakers, structures, and use of the whole set of languages within the family, including Turkish, Azeri, Turkmen, Tatar, Kazakh, Uzbek, and Uyghur, and gives a comprehensive overview of published works on Turkic languages, large and small. It also provides an innovative theoretical framework, employing a unified terminology and transcription, to give new insights into the Turkic linguistic type. Requiring no previous knowledge of the Turkic languages, it will be welcomed by both general readers, as well as academic researchers and students of linguistic typology, c
Johanson and Bulut (Johannes Gutenberg U., Mainz, Germany) present a collection of papers based on contributions to two international conferences convened in Mainz, in December, 1998, and January, 200
When two or more languages have bound morphology in common, it is generally either because the languages are daughters of a common parent language, and so inherit the morphology; or because contact be
For the 2005-06 academic year, Uppsala University in Sweden invited specialists in Turkic and Iranian languages as fellows-in-residence, and at the end of the year, hosted a workshop and a symposium o
