Description
Book SynopsisDolgan is a severely endangered Turkic language spoken in the extreme north of the Russian Federation which has undergone noticeable substrate influence and thus exhibits grammatical structures differing from other Turkic languages. The grammar at hand is the first fully-fledged grammar of Dolgan in English language: It describes the Dolgan language system from an internal perspective basing on corpus data of natural Dolgan speech. It takes historical, comparative and typological perspectives, if applicable, but refrains from pertaining to a particular linguistic theory. Consequently, both Turcologists and general linguists can make use of it independently from their individual research question.
Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations List of Charts, Figures and Maps 1 Introduction 1.1 How to Read This Book 1.2 The Speakers of Dolgan 1.3 Historical and Ethnographical Background 1.4 Traditional Way of Life 1.5 The Language 1.6 Material and Data 2 Phonology and Phonetics 2.1 Vowel System 2.2 Consonant System 2.3 Phonotactics 2.4 Prosody 2.5 Morphonological Processes 3 Word Classes 3.1 Nouns 3.2 Adjectives 3.3 Pronouns 3.4 Numerals and Quantifiers 3.5 Verbs 3.6 Adverbs 3.7 Postpositions 3.8 Particles and Clitics 3.9 Interjections, Conversational Formulas and Onomatopoeia 4 Nominal Inflectional Morphology 4.1 Number 4.2 Case 4.3 Possession 4.4 Predicate Forms of Nominals 5 Pronominal Inflectional Morphology 5.1 Personal Pronouns 5.2 Other Pro-Forms 6 Verbal Inflectional Morphology 6.1 Verbal Stems 6.2 Sets of Personal Endings 6.3 Non-finite Verb Forms 6.4 Tense-Aspect Forms 6.5 Mood, Modality and Illocution 6.6 Evidentiality 7 Non-clausal Syntax 7.1 Noun Phrase 7.2 Adjective Phrase 7.3 Verb Phrase 7.4 Adpositional Phrase 7.5 Adverb Phrase 8 Clausal Syntax—Simple Clauses 8.1 Verbal Predication 8.2 Non-verbal Predication 8.3 Syntax of Adverbials 8.4 Non-declarative Clauses 8.5 Negation in Simple Clauses 9 Clausal Syntax—Complex Clauses 9.1 Clause Chaining 9.2 Coordination 9.3 Subordination 10 Discourse Organization 10.1 Word Order 10.2 Information Structure 10.3 Reference Tracking and Information Status 10.4 False Starts, Fillers and Placeholder Items 10.5 Direct and Indirect Speech 11 Lexicon 11.1 Semantic Fields 11.2 Loanwords 12 Derivational Processes 12.1 Nominal > Nominal 12.2 Verb > Nominal 12.3 Nominal > Verb 12.4 Verb > Verb 13 Sample Texts 13.1 Text 1: The Reindeer and the Mouse 13.2 Text 2: Dolgan Birth Customs 13.3 Text 3: Discussing the Correct Order 13.4 Text 4: We Hit the Road Again 13.5 Text 5: Khatanga’s School—90 Years 14 References Index
