Kirjahaku

Turkic is one of the world's major language families, comprising a high number of distinct languages and varieties that display remarkable similarities and notable differences. Written by a leading expert in the field, this landmark work provides an unrivalled overview of multiple features of Turkic, covering structural, functional, historical, sociolinguistic and literary aspects. It presents the history and cultures of the speakers, structures, and use of the whole set of languages within the family, including Turkish, Azeri, Turkmen, Tatar, Kazakh, Uzbek, and Uyghur, and gives a comprehensive overview of published works on Turkic languages, large and small. It also provides an innovative theoretical framework, employing a unified terminology and transcription, to give new insights into the Turkic linguistic type. Requiring no previous knowledge of the Turkic languages, it will be welcomed by both general readers, as well as academic researchers and students of linguistic typology, comparative linguistics, and Turkic studies.

Turkic languages present particularly rich sources of data for the study of language contact, given the number and diversity of languages with which they have been in contact. Many common, false generalisations are laid bare and the methodology used in evaluating particular instances of language contact can also be used with profit by students of languages other than the Turkic.

Turkic languages present particularly rich sources of data for the study of language contact, given the number and diversity of languages with which they have been in contact. Many common, false generalisations are laid bare and the methodology used in evaluating particular instances of language contact can also be used with profit by students of languages other than the Turkic.

This book presents Lars Johanson's Code-Copying Model, an integrated framework for the description of contact-induced processes. The model covers all the main contact linguistic issues in their synchronic and diachronic interrelationship. The terminology is kept intuitive and simple to apply. Illustrative examples from a wide range of languages demonstrate the model's applicability to both spoken and written codes. The fundamental difference between 'take-over' copying and 'carry-over' copying is given special value. Speakers can take over copies from a secondary code into their own primary code, or alternatively carry over copies from their own primary code into their variety of a secondary code. The results of these two types of copying are significantly different and thus provide insights into historical processes.

Lars Johanson, svensk turkolog, är känd för sin språkvetenskapliga forskning Denna bok vittnar om att han också med stort engagemang har studerat andra aspekter av turkologin. Redan som student i Uppsala hade han intensiv kontakt med kulturscenen i Turkiet. Här presenterar han sina skrifter om turkisk litteratur och kultur för en svensk läsekrets. Somliga artiklar ger en lättförståelig introduktion till den turkiska världen och det turkiska språkets säregenheter. Andra avser turkiska författares verk och deras ofta återkommande problem med den rådande politiken samt turkologins roll i svensk akademisk miljö. En del har tidigare publicerats på svenska men många föreligger här för första gången i svensk översättning. Boken illustreras med foton av den berömde turkiske fotografen Ergun Çagatay och av författaren själv.