{"title":"Language contact and areal convergence in North Asia","authors":"A. Nefedov, E. Kotorova","doi":"10.1075/japc.00086.nef","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Ket is the sole surviving member of the Yeniseian language family, spoken in the central part of North Asia. This\n large territory is also home to other language families: Samoyedic, Ob-Ugric, Tungusic, and Turkic. Apart from Yeniseian, which\n are strikingly unique, all language groups in the area conform to a common typological profile. Subsequent to contact over several\n hundred years, many of the core grammatical features that distinguish Yeniseian from the other language families have undergone a\n ‘typological accommodation,’ a phenomenon most prominent in Modern Ket, to mimic the dominant language type in the area. The\n present article aims to provide an overview of some ways in which typological accommodation has affected the phonemic tones and\n nominal and verbal morphology in Modern Ket, and to show that this peculiar phenomenon is also attested at the syntactic level in\n formation of adverbial and relative clauses. As such, the paper presents that the phonemic and morphological structures of Modern\n Ket uniquely position the language for discourse and communication. Here, its speakers deploy these communicative devices,\n specifically designed followed extended contact with other languages, as representative of their language community.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00086.nef","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
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.
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.