Towards a theory of "Ural-Altaic" isoglosses: a research agenda for an Eurasian linguistic area
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2013
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Tүpkı дүниеcı: ғылыми-kѳпшiлik aльмaнaхы: 2013 = Turkic world: popular science almanac
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92-103
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Astana: Foliant
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Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that a Schleicherian approach to the so-called established Uralic and Altaic language families is not convincing. It is more fruitful to consider the convergences between individual members of these language groups in terms of a theory of language contact and isoglosses. The objective of such a research approach is to sort out the defining features of language areas in the Eurasian space.
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English
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