Einheit und Vielfalt in der türkischen Welt

Einheit und Vielfalt in der türkischen Welt
Author: Hendrik Boeschoten
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2007
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783447054768

Der Tagungsband der 5. Deutschen Turkologenkonferenz bietet einen reprasentativen Querschnitt gegenwartiger turkologischer Forschung. Den Schwerpunkt der 34 Aufsatze bilden Diskussionen philologischer, linguistischer und literaturwissenschaftlicher Probleme der Turksprachen, die durch Beitrage zu historischen und zeitgeschichtlichen Themen erganzt werden. Gemass der "gesamtturkologischen" Auffassung des Faches werden nicht nur das Turkeiturkische bzw. Osmanische und die Turkei behandelt, sondern es wird den noch wenig erforschten kleineren Turksprachen und -volkern besondere Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet. Die Themenvielfalt reicht von alteren Sprachstufen ("Turkic personal names in Middle Mongol sources", "Mittelbulgarische Dialekte", "Satirische Gedichte des osmanischen Dichters Kesfi)uber das moderne Turkisch ("Genitiv im Turkischen") und seine Randvarietaten ("Sprachkontakt in Nordzypern?") bis zu entfernteren Turksprachen wie dem Nogaischen im Nordkaukasus ("Postverbiale Konverbien im Nogaischen") oder dem in China gesprochenen Salarisch und Eynu. Die literarischen Untersuchungen befassen sich mit der turkischen Postmoderne ("Elif Safaks Roman Bit Palas") wie auch mit der Volksdichtung anderer Turkvolker ("Wiegenlieder im Usbekischen und Kirgisischen"). Neueste Untersuchungen zu aktuellen ideologischen Stromungen in der Turkei ("Gibt es einen turkischen Islam?", "Turkische Kulturpolitik im Internet") und in Aserbaidschan und zur Situation der Wolgatataren vervollstandigen das Bild.

Complementizer Semantics in European Languages

Complementizer Semantics in European Languages
Author: Kasper Boye
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 910
Release: 2016-07-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110416611

Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.

Studies in Turkish as a Heritage Language

Studies in Turkish as a Heritage Language
Author: Fatih Bayram
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2020-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027260508

Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language. Heritage language bilinguals often wind up with grammatical systems that differ in interesting ways from dominant-native speakers growing up where their heritage language is the majority one. Understanding the trajectories and outcomes of heritage language bilingual grammatical competence, performance, language usage patterns, identities and more related topics sits at the core of many research programs across a wide array of theoretical paradigms. The study of heritage language bilingualism has grown exponentially over the past two decades. This expansion in interest has seen, in parallel, extensions in methodologies applied, bridges built between closely related fields such as the study of language contact and linguistic attrition. As is typical in linguistics, not all languages are studied to the same degree. The present volume showcases what Turkish as a heritage language brings to bear for key questions in the study of heritage language bilingualism and beyond. In many ways, Turkish is an ideal language to be studied because of its large diaspora across the world, in particular Europe. The papers in this volume are diverse: from psycholinguistic, to ethnographic, to classroom-based studies featuring Turkish as a heritage language. Together they equal more than their subparts, leading to the conclusion that understudied heritage languages like Turkish provide missing pieces to the puzzle of understanding the variables that give rise to the continuum of outcomes characteristic of heritage language speakers.

Adverbial Relations in Turkish-German Bilingualism

Adverbial Relations in Turkish-German Bilingualism
Author: Seda Yilmaz Wörfel
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2022
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3830995423

The Turkish language in diaspora is in process of change due to different language constellations of immigrants and the dominance of majority languages. This led to a great interest in various research areas, particularly in linguistics. Against this background, this study focuses on developmental change in the use of adverbial clause-combining constructions in Turkish-German bilingual students' oral and written text production. It illustrates the use of non-finite constructions and some unique alternative strategies to express adverbial relations with authentic examples in Turkish and German. The findings contribute to a better understanding of how bilingual competencies vary in expressing adverbial relations depending on language contact and extra-linguistic factors. Dr. Seda Yilmaz Wörfel completed a Ph.D. in German linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She works as a research associate at the Mercator-Institute for Literacy and Language Education at the University of Cologne. Her research interests are Turkish-German Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, Multiliteracy and Language Contact.

Turkic

Turkic
Author: Lars Johanson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1333
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1009038214

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, comparative linguistics, and Turkic studies.

The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology

The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology
Author: Veronika Mattes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027258880

This book offers the first systematic study of the early phases in the acquisition of derivational morphology from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. It presents ten empirical longitudinal studies in genealogically and typologically diverse languages (Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Altaic) with different degrees of derivational complexity. Data collection, analysis and systematic comparison between child speech and parental child-directed speech are strictly parallel across the chapters. In order to identify the productivity of a derivational pattern, signalling the crucial developmental stage in its acquisition, the concept of the mini-paradigm criterion was applied. Similar developmental processes can be observed in all children, independent of the language they acquire, but the children’s courses of development also show obvious typological differences. This points towards an important impact of the structural properties of the specific language on emergence, use and the early course of development of derivational patterns.

Word-Formation

Word-Formation
Author: Peter O. Müller
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 793
Release: 2016-03-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110427516

This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.

Cultural Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean

Cultural Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean
Author: Stelios Irakleous
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022-07-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1527583848

The movement of people and objects has always stood at the heart of attempts to understand the course and processes of human history. The history of the Mediterranean is particularly abundant when it comes to issues of migration, colonisation, and trade, initiating thus archaeological, historical, linguistic and cultural discussions. This collection highlights the richness and depth of the multifaceted cultural exchanges of the region and focuses on underrepresented aspects of cultural exchanges in the Mediterranean, with Cyprus having a central role as a crossroads. It responds to the challenge of linking the study of everyday life at the micro-level to macro-scale narratives based on trans-regional engagement.

Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective

Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective
Author: Alessandra Barotto
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2023-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027254885

This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.e., linguistic elements and constructions that help to manage the organization, flow, and outcome of communication) from a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Although it is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches that grammar is shaped by discourse use, systematic typological cross-linguistic investigations on discourse phenomena are relatively rare. This volume aims at bridging this gap, by integrating different linguistic subfields, such as discourse analysis, pragmatics, and typology. The contributions, both theoretically and empirically oriented, focus on a broad variety of discourse phenomena (ranging from discourse markers to discourse function of grammatical markers, to strategies that manage the discourse and information flow) while adopting a typological perspective and considering typologically distant languages.

Handbook of Literacy in Diglossia and in Dialectal Contexts

Handbook of Literacy in Diglossia and in Dialectal Contexts
Author: Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2022-03-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030800725

This volume is the first published collection of papers on the impact of diglossia and dialectal variations on language and literacy acquisition, impairment, and education. The authors are pioneering in this field and are leading researchers with substantial experience in conducting research in this area. A wide range of areas and languages are covered, including the US, South Africa, Israel, and various European countries. The chapters present novel data and insights regarding the role of dialectal variations on language and literacy, from a wide range of countries and perspectives. These insights have significant theoretical and practical implications. A majority of literacy learners worldwide are taught to read and write in a language variety or a dialect that is not the same as their spoken language. Not only is this the global norm, but it is probably also the greatest obstacle to literacy learning. This volume is the first published collection of papers on the role of dialect in language and literacy acquisition, impairment, and education in a variety of languages and situations across Europe, the Middle East, North America, Africa, and Asia.The authors are pioneers in this field.