Language contact and areal convergence in North Asia

IF 0.5 Q4 COMMUNICATION Journal of Asian Pacific Communication Pub Date : 2022-08-04 DOI:10.1075/japc.00086.nef
A. Nefedov, E. Kotorova
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Ket is the sole surviving member of the Yeniseian language family, spoken in the central part of North Asia. This large territory is also home to other language families: Samoyedic, Ob-Ugric, Tungusic, and Turkic. Apart from Yeniseian, which are strikingly unique, all language groups in the area conform to a common typological profile. Subsequent to contact over several hundred years, many of the core grammatical features that distinguish Yeniseian from the other language families have undergone a ‘typological accommodation,’ a phenomenon most prominent in Modern Ket, to mimic the dominant language type in the area. The present article aims to provide an overview of some ways in which typological accommodation has affected the phonemic tones and nominal and verbal morphology in Modern Ket, and to show that this peculiar phenomenon is also attested at the syntactic level in formation of adverbial and relative clauses. As such, the paper presents that the phonemic and morphological structures of Modern Ket uniquely position the language for discourse and communication. Here, its speakers deploy these communicative devices, specifically designed followed extended contact with other languages, as representative of their language community.
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北亚的语言接触与地域融合
科特语是叶尼塞语系中唯一幸存的成员,分布在北亚中部。这片广阔的领土也是其他语系的家园:萨摩耶语族、奥布-乌戈尔语族、通古斯语族和突厥语族。除了叶尼塞语这一独特的语言外,该地区的所有语言群体都符合一个共同的类型特征。经过几百年的接触,叶尼塞语与其他语系的许多核心语法特征都经历了“类型学调整”,这是现代科特语中最突出的现象,以模仿该地区的主导语言类型。本文旨在概述现代Ket中类型调节对音位音调、名词和言语形态的影响,并表明这种特殊现象在状语和关系从句的形成中也得到了句法层面的证实。因此,本文认为现代Ket的音位和形态结构为语言的话语和交流提供了独特的位置。在这里,它的说话者部署了这些交流设备,这些设备是在与其他语言的长期接触后专门设计的,作为他们语言社区的代表。
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期刊介绍: The journal’s academic orientation is generalist, passionately committed to interdisciplinary approaches to language and communication studies in the Asian Pacific. Thematic issues of previously published issues of JAPC include Cross-Cultural Communications: Literature, Language, Ideas; Sociolinguistics in China; Japan Communication Issues; Mass Media in the Asian Pacific; Comic Art in Asia, Historical Literacy, and Political Roots; Communication Gains through Student Exchanges & Study Abroad; Language Issues in Malaysia; English Language Development in East Asia; The Teachings of Writing in the Pacific Basin; Language and Identity in Asia; The Economics of Language in the Asian Pacific.
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