Discovering the prehistory of multilingual situations in the lexicon An empirical study on the Caucasian Urum vocabulary

Discovering the prehistory of multilingual situations in the lexicon An empirical study on the Caucasian Urum vocabulary

Multilingual situations are reflected in the lexicon; by consequence, lexical borrowings are powerful evidence for language contact in the prehistory of linguistic communities. This article presents an empirical study on the lexical knowledge of Caucasian Urum speakers, i. e., ethnic Greek speakers...

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Main Authors: Ries, Veronika, Skopeteas, Stavros, Turan, Emrah, Nahrmann, Kristin
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Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2014-03-01
Series:Linguistik Online
Online Access:http://linguistik-online.com/64_14/riesSkopeteasTuranNahrmann.pdf
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author Ries, Veronika
Skopeteas, Stavros
Turan, Emrah
Nahrmann, Kristin
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Skopeteas, Stavros
Turan, Emrah
Nahrmann, Kristin
Discovering the prehistory of multilingual situations in the lexicon An empirical study on the Caucasian Urum vocabulary
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title Discovering the prehistory of multilingual situations in the lexicon An empirical study on the Caucasian Urum vocabulary
title_short Discovering the prehistory of multilingual situations in the lexicon An empirical study on the Caucasian Urum vocabulary
title_full Discovering the prehistory of multilingual situations in the lexicon An empirical study on the Caucasian Urum vocabulary
title_fullStr Discovering the prehistory of multilingual situations in the lexicon An empirical study on the Caucasian Urum vocabulary
title_full_unstemmed Discovering the prehistory of multilingual situations in the lexicon An empirical study on the Caucasian Urum vocabulary
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description Multilingual situations are reflected in the lexicon; by consequence, lexical borrowings are powerful evidence for language contact in the prehistory of linguistic communities. This article presents an empirical study on the lexical knowledge of Caucasian Urum speakers, i. e., ethnic Greek speakers in the Small Caucasus, who are bilingual in a variety of Turkish (Urum) and Russian. The analysis is based on the established assumption that certain concepts are cross-linguistically associated with a certain likelihood of borrowing. Based on this assumption the data from lexical knowledge allow for insights with respect to the substrate/superstrate status of the involved languages in a multilingual situation and provide evidence for the type of relation (genetic or contact-induced) between compared languages.
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