Description

The volume Exploring the Diversity of Turkic Languages is a collection of eight chapters, each presenting research in the field of Turkic linguistics. Within the volume the papers are divided into two sections: papers reporting on original research and papers presenting case studies. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of Turkic languages and linguistics, covering phonology, morphology and syntax, semantics as well as language contact phenomena of different modern Turkic languages. These include Turkish, Turkmen, modern Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Sakha (Yakut), Rhodian Turkish, Old Turkic in Manichaean religious texts, historical Turkic as the literary Eastern Turkic, Chulym as an extremely endangered Siberian Turkic variety. Furthermore, Khalaj Turkic together with South Azerbaijani and the Eastern Anatolian dialects of Turkish are examined. The contributors to this volume of diverse and thought-provoking collection of papers include both established scholars and up-and-coming researchers in the field of Turkic linguistics, in which this publication will stimulate and inspire further research in and discussion about this fascinating topic.