The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 March 2022
- ISBN 9780198767664
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1184 pages
- Size 284x230x62 mm
- Weight 2898 g
- Language English 1848
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Short description:
This volume brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide a comprehensive account of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia. It will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in the Uralic languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
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This volume offers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment available today of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia. While there is a long history of research into these languages, much of it has been conducted within several disparate national traditions; studies of certain languages and topics are somewhat limited and in many cases outdated. The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the internal relations and diversity of the Uralic language family, including the outlines of its historical development, and the contacts between Uralic and other languages of Eurasia.
The book is divided into three parts. Part I presents the origins and development of the Uralic languages: the initial chapters examine reconstructed Proto-Uralic and its divergence, while later chapters provide surveys of the history and codification of the three Uralic nation-state languages (Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian) and the Uralic minority languages from Baltic Europe to Siberia. This part also explores questions of endangerment, revitalization, and language policy. The chapters in Part II offer individual structural overviews of the Uralic languages, including a number of understudied minority languages for which no detailed description in English has previously been available. The final part of the book provides cross-Uralic comparative and typological case studies of a range of issues in phonology, morphology, syntax, and the lexicon. The chapters explore a number of topics, such as information structure and clause combining, that have traditionally received very little attention in Uralic studies. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in the Uralic languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
This book is a thoroughly admirable compilation. We can be very glad that it has been produced while at least a few speakers of most of these languages survive: a decade or two later it might have become very difficult to achieve such comprehensive coverage of one of the world's major language families. The book is well written and clear, despite the fact that scarcely any contributor has English as his or her mother tongue.
Table of Contents:
Transcription and glossing
The contributors
Mapping the distribution of the Uralic languages
Introduction
Part I: The Making of the Uralic Languages
Proto-Uralic
The divergence of Proto-Uralic and its offspring: A descendant reconstruction
The making of the Uralic nation-state languages
The Uralic minorities: Endangerment and revitalization
Language policy in Russia: The Uralic languages
Graphization and orthographies of Uralic minority languages
Part II: Language descriptions
Saami: General introduction
South Saami
Lule Saami
North Saami
Aanaar (Inari) Saami
Skolt Saami
Kildin Saami
Finnic: General introduction
Finnish, Meänkieli, and Kven
Karelian
Veps
Ingrian
Votic
North and Standard Estonian
Seto South Estonian
Livonian
Mordvin (Erzya and Moksha)
Mari
Permic: General introduction
Komi
Udmurt
Ugric: General introduction
North Mansi
East Mansi
North Khanty
East Khanty
Hungarian
Samoyedic: General introduction
Nenets
Enets
Nganasan
Selkup
Kamas
Part III: General issues and case studies
Introduction to Part III: General issues and case studies
Palatalization
Consonant gradation
Prosody
Case
Person marking
Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM) and evidentials
Negation and negatives
Non-finites
Word order
Adpositions and adpositional phrases
Existential, locational, and possessive sentences
Nominal predication
Clause combining
Information structuring
References
Index
