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Sociolinguistic Aspects of Tungusic

open access: yes, 2023
This chapter focuses on the current sociolinguistic status of the Tungusic languages in Russia: (Siberian) Ewenki, Neghidal, Ewen, Oroch Udihe, Nanai, Ulcha, and Uilta.
Mamontova, Nadezhda; id_orcid
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A typology of negation in Tungusic

Studies in Language, 2015
Negation seems to be a universal linguistic category, yet languages differ vastly in how they express it. Tungusic languages show several interesting and typologically rare phenomena. The paper offers a typological description of negation within the whole language family from an onomasiological perspective.
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Eskimo Loanwords in Northern Tungusic

IRAN and the CAUCASUS, 2015
This article surveys several Eskimo loanwords in Tungusic. Since they are found exclusively in Northern Tungusic languages, in all probability these loanwords represent a relatively late contact between Northern Tungusic and Eskimo speakers that was likely to take place no earlier than two thousand years ago, when speakers of proto-Northern Tungusic ...
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The syntax and pragmatics of Tungusic revisited

2013
This paper considers the changes in clause-combining structures as the Siberian Tungusic languages, represented here by Evenki, are undergoing shift due to contact with Russian. Native clause-combining strategies, specifically parataxis and subordination with converb forms, are being replaced by coordination and subordination with finite verbs based on
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A Significant Contribution to Tungusic Language Research: The Tungusic Languages

The long-anticipated Tungusic Languages volume, part of the Language Families series by Routledge, was finally made available to researchers in 2023 after an extensive preparation process. Within the same series, the first edition of The Turkic Languages was published in 1998, followed by an expanded second edition in 2021, while The Mongolic Languages
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Vowel Harmony in Tungusic Languages

Abstract This chapter presents a description of vowel harmony (VH) in Tungusic languages, based on the hypothesis that earlier Tungusic and most modern Tungusic languages are characterized by retracted tongue root (RTR) harmony, drawing empirical data from Even, Orochen, Evenki, Solon, Nanaj, Classical Manchu, and varieties of Modern ...
Bing Li, Norval Smith
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