33.3428, Books: The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages: Bakró-Nagy, Laakso, Skribnik (eds.)

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Subject: 33.3428, Books: The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages: Bakró-Nagy, Laakso, Skribnik (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:58:09
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages: Bakró-Nagy, Laakso, Skribnik (eds.)

 


Title: The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages 
Series Title: Oxford Guides to the World's Languages  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-guide-to-the-uralic-languages-9780198767664?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Editor: Marianne Bakró-Nagy
Editor: Johanna Laakso
Editor: Elena Skribnik

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198767664 Pages: 1184 Price: U.S. $ 190


Abstract:

This volume offers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment available
today of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern
Eurasia. While there is a long history of research into these languages, much
of it has been conducted within several disparate national traditions; studies
of certain languages and topics are somewhat limited and in many cases
outdated. The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages brings together leading
scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date
account of the internal relations and diversity of the Uralic language family,
including the outlines of its historical development, and the contacts between
Uralic and other languages of Eurasia.

The book is divided into three parts. Part I presents the origins and
development of the Uralic languages: the initial chapters examine
reconstructed Proto-Uralic and its divergence, while later chapters provide
surveys of the history and codification of the three Uralic nation-state
languages (Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian) and the Uralic minority languages
from Baltic Europe to Siberia. This part also explores questions of
endangerment, revitalization, and language policy. The chapters in Part II
offer individual structural overviews of the Uralic languages, including a
number of understudied minority languages for which no detailed description in
English has previously been available. The final part of the book provides
cross-Uralic comparative and typological case studies of a range of issues in
phonology, morphology, syntax, and the lexicon. The chapters explore a number
of topics, such as information structure and clause combining, that have
traditionally received very little attention in Uralic studies. The volume
will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in
the Uralic languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more
broadly.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation


Written In: English  (eng)

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