Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region
The paper deals with recent contact-induced changes in the grammar of two languages of the Lower Kolyma tundra, Tundra Yukaghir (TY) and Lower Kolyma Even (LKE). The morphosyntax of these languages has undergone a rather strong influence from Sakha in the course of the 20th century. The investigatio...
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ftsoaslib:oai:eprints.soas.ac.uk:42371 2024-09-15T18:32:39+00:00 Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region Matić, Dejan Nikolaeva, Irina 2024-06-18 text https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/42371/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/42371/1/jlc-article-p11_2.pdf https://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/17/1/article-p11_2.xml en eng Brill https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/42371/1/jlc-article-p11_2.pdf Matić, Dejan and Nikolaeva, Irina (2024) 'Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region.' Journal of Language Contact, 17 (1). pp. 11-69. cc_by_4 Journal Article PeerReviewed 2024 ftsoaslib 2024-09-04T00:08:33Z The paper deals with recent contact-induced changes in the grammar of two languages of the Lower Kolyma tundra, Tundra Yukaghir (TY) and Lower Kolyma Even (LKE). The morphosyntax of these languages has undergone a rather strong influence from Sakha in the course of the 20th century. The investigation focusses on the structural copying of Sakha patterns into TY and LKE, which resulted in the emergence of several new categories, in particular, the future imperative, the necessitive based on the future participle with or without proprietive marking, evaluative morphology, and contrastive markers deriving from the converbs of the copula verb. In addition, the TY system of differential object marking has changed under the influence of Sakha. These phenomena are interpreted against their historical and sociolinguistic settings, specifically, the types of multilingual situations in the region. The ramifications of the findings for the theory of language contact are also discussed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sakha Tundra Yukaghir School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London: SOAS Research Online |
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The paper deals with recent contact-induced changes in the grammar of two languages of the Lower Kolyma tundra, Tundra Yukaghir (TY) and Lower Kolyma Even (LKE). The morphosyntax of these languages has undergone a rather strong influence from Sakha in the course of the 20th century. The investigation focusses on the structural copying of Sakha patterns into TY and LKE, which resulted in the emergence of several new categories, in particular, the future imperative, the necessitive based on the future participle with or without proprietive marking, evaluative morphology, and contrastive markers deriving from the converbs of the copula verb. In addition, the TY system of differential object marking has changed under the influence of Sakha. These phenomena are interpreted against their historical and sociolinguistic settings, specifically, the types of multilingual situations in the region. The ramifications of the findings for the theory of language contact are also discussed. |
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Matić, Dejan Nikolaeva, Irina Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region |
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Matić, Dejan Nikolaeva, Irina |
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Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region |
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Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region |
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Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region |
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Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region |
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Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region |
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recent contact-induced morphosyntactic changes in the lower kolyma region |
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/42371/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/42371/1/jlc-article-p11_2.pdf https://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/17/1/article-p11_2.xml |
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Sakha Tundra Yukaghir |
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/42371/1/jlc-article-p11_2.pdf Matić, Dejan and Nikolaeva, Irina (2024) 'Recent Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Changes in the Lower Kolyma Region.' Journal of Language Contact, 17 (1). pp. 11-69. |
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