Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic

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• ISBN13: 9780415308045
• ISBN10: 0415308046
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134396306
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-24
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

This book is the first of its kind in the field of Iranian, Semitic and Turkic contact linguistics, and provides a summary of the present results of this dynamic field of research. The authors are outstanding scholars engaged in the study of language varieties spoken in 'convergence areas' in which speakers are multilingual in languages of at least two but sometimes three language families. Many of the contributions present new data collected in fieldwork. The geographic area covered is Western and Central Asia where varieties of Iranian, Semitic and Turkic languages have entered into many different types of contact. The intricate linguistic contact situations demonstrate highly interesting convergence phenomena.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Introduction
Converging Codes in Iranian, Semitic and Turkic	3	(32)
Lars Johanson
Part 1: Iranian Languages
Iranian as Buffer Zone Between the Universal Typologies of Turkic and Semitic	35	(30)
Donald L. Stilo
Semitic in Iranian: Written, Read and Spoken Language	65	(14)
Bo Utas
The Glottal Plosive: A Phoneme in Spoken Modern Persian or Not?	79	(18)
Carina Jahani
Lexical Areas and Semantic Fields of Arabic Loanwords in Persian and Beyond	97	(14)
John R. Perry
Central Asian Arabic: The Irano-Arabic Dynamics of a New Perfect	111	(16)
Gernot L. Windfuhr
Part 2: Semitic Languages
Linguistic Contacts in Central Asia	127	(6)
Guram Chikovani
Uzbekistan Arabic: A Language Created by Semitic-Iranian-Turkic Linguistic Convergence	133	(8)
Otto Jastrow
Bukhara Arabic: A Metatypized Dialect of Arabic in Central Asia	141	(20)
Robert R. Ratcliffe
On the Arabic of Arabkhane in Eastern Iran	161	(12)
Sven-Olof Dahlgren
Persian and Turkish Loans in the Arabic Dialects of North Eastern Arabia	173	(8)
Bruce Ingham
New Linguistic Data from the Sason Area in Anatolia	181	(10)
Bo Isaksson
The Turkish Contribution to the Arabic Lexicon	191	(14)
Stephan Prochazka
Part 3: Turkic Languages
Bilateral Code Copying in Eastern Persian and South-Eastern Turkic	205	(10)
Lars Johanson
Some Notes on ``Mixed'' Written Western Oghuz Turkic	215	(12)
Hendrik Boeschoten
Traces of Turki-yi Acemi in Pietro della Valle's Turkish Grammar (1620)	227	(14)
Heidi Stein
Iranian Influences in Sonqor Turkic	241	(30)
Christiane Bulut
On Copying in Kashkay	271	(14)
Eva A. Csato
Modal Constructions in Turkic of Iran	285	(10)
Filiz Kiral
The Strange Case of Ottoman	295	(10)
Geoffrey Lewis
Adverbial Clauses in an Old Ottoman Turkish Interlinear Version of the Koran	305	(12)
Mark Kirchner
Right-Branching vs. Left-Branching Subordinate Clauses in 16th Century Ottoman Historical Texts: Haphazard Use or Stylistic Device?	317	(18)
Claudia Romer
Some Remarks on the Phonological Status of Greek Loanwords in Anatolian Turkish Dialects	335	(14)
Bernt Brendemoen
Part 4: Other Perspectives
Convergence of Languages on the East African Coast	349	(16)
Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi
Vowel Harmony -- Areal or Genetic?	365
Jan-Olof Svantesson