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16. Valency classes in Even (North Tungusic) in a comparative Tungusic perspective
2015Andrej Malchukov, Igor V. Nedjalkov
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Eskimo Loanwords in Northern Tungusic
IRAN and the CAUCASUS, 2015This 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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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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A typology of negation in Tungusic
Studies in Language, 2015Negation 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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Chapter 13. Paradigm copying in Tungusic
2014While it is generally acknowledged that shared correspondences in inflectional morphology provide solid evidence for a genealogical relationship between languages, inflectional paradigms are not immune to copying: two cases of verbal paradigms copied from the Turkic language Sakha (Yakut) into North Tungusic lects are known. In this paper I survey over
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