Areal features of copula sentences in Karaim as spoken in Lithuania

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knygos dalis / Part of the book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Areal features of copula sentences in Karaim as spoken in Lithuania
Authors:
Csató, Éva Ágnes
In the Book:
On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia / edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Lindsay J. Whaley. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. P. 203-220. (Studies in language companion series ; 164)
Subject Category:
LT
Etninės grupės / Ethnic groups.
Summary / Abstract:

ENThe paper deals with copula clauses in Karaim, a highly endangered Kipchak Turkic language spoken in Lithuania. Karaim has been dominated by the non-Turkic (Baltic and Slavic) languages of the area. Though Karaim has acquired many properties not typical of Turkic it has preserved its Turkic morphological inventory to the extent that typical Turkic categories are still marked by genuine Turkic formatives (Csató 2012, 2013). Notwithstanding this remarkable sustainability, the paper demonstrates how selective copying has in many cases changed morphosyntactic properties of the copula clauses. The contact-induced features are analyzed in the Code-Copying Model (Johanson 2002). Keywords: Code-Copying Model, copula clauses, Karaim, language contact, Turkic. [Publisher annotation]

DOI:
10.1075/slcs.164.07csa
ISBN:
9789027259295
Subject:
Kalbotyra / Linguistics
Related Publications:
Grammatical evidentiality in Lithuanian (a typological assessment).. Baltistica. 2006, t. 41, Nr. 1, p. 33-49.
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