Var mı, yok mu? ("Does it or doesn't it exist?"): the Altaic dilemma (or: Aru, nai?)
| dc.contributor.author | Mills, Timothy Ian | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-21T19:49:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-06-21T19:49:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1998-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper is an overview of arguments for the relatedness of the two languages demonstrated in the title - Turkish and Japanese - and the series of language groups between the two, including the rest of the Turkic languages, the Mongolian and Manchu-Tungus families, and Korean, the close sister of Japanese. The Altaic family is a hypothesized genetic unity including the subfamilies of Turkic, Mongolian, and Manchu-Tungus, as well as the fringe languages of Japanese and Korean. The great geographical expanse of these languages encourages scepticism until one considers that Indo-European is said to reach from Icelandic to Hindi. Having had less attention in studies of historical linguistics than lndo-European, the existence of the Altaic family is still hotly debated among scholars. | en_US |
| dc.description.refereed | Yes | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mills, T. I. (1998). Var mı, yok mu? ("Does it or doesn't it exist?"): the Altaic dilemma (or: Aru, nai?). Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 20(Winter), 55-72. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28941 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2371-2643 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51418 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Calgary | en_US |
| dc.publisher.department | Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Arts | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en_US |
| dc.subject | Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Turkish language | en_US |
| dc.subject | Japanese language | en_US |
| dc.subject | Comparative linguistics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Typology (Linguistics) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Altaic languages | en_US |
| dc.subject | Proto-Altaic language | en_US |
| dc.subject | Historical linguistics | en_US |
| dc.title | Var mı, yok mu? ("Does it or doesn't it exist?"): the Altaic dilemma (or: Aru, nai?) | en_US |
| dc.type | journal article |