This monograph dicsusses phonetic, morphological and semantic features of the ‘Altaic’ Sprachbund (i.e. Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic) elements in Yeniseian
The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range
The volume offers a description of the history and linguistic consequences of Russian-Turkic contacts in two adjacent republics in the Altai-Sayan region of sou
The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language con
The present volume includes papers that were presented at the conference Languages in Contact at the University of Groningen (25-26 November 1999). The conferen