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Evidence and Counter-Evidence: Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt, Volume 2: General Linguistics
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436 pages, Hardcover
First published September 30, 2008
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June 25, 2014
EVIDENCE AND COUNTER-EVIDENCE is a Festschrift for Fredrik Kortlant. This is the second volume, and unlike volume one (ISBN 9042024704), it moves farther afield from Kortlandt's usual interests in Indo-European linguistics.
The contributions to this volume two deal with Andean languages, Japanese, Armenian dialects of Abkhazia, Baima (Tibetan), Mongolian, Yeniseic, Nivkh, Taiwan's indigenous languages, Berber, Yukaghir, Old Korean, Old Chinese, Tunen (Bantu) and Buryat. Four papers in this volume deal with general linguistic themes independent of any one language.
The authors are all among the leading scholars in the field for their respective languages (Stefan Georg for Ket, Elena Maslova for Yukaghir, Ekaterina Gruzdeva for Nivkh, etc.) and they are generally on very specific themes. Even if some of the contributors here support reconstructing an Altaic language family, there is none of the wild proliferation of revolutionary new explanations that distinguishes Kortlandt's own work.
I found this volume especially helpful for Georg's chapter on Yeniseic, which is a friendly introduction to these mysterious languages for people with experience only in the Samoyedic and Turkic languages spoken around them.
The contributions to this volume two deal with Andean languages, Japanese, Armenian dialects of Abkhazia, Baima (Tibetan), Mongolian, Yeniseic, Nivkh, Taiwan's indigenous languages, Berber, Yukaghir, Old Korean, Old Chinese, Tunen (Bantu) and Buryat. Four papers in this volume deal with general linguistic themes independent of any one language.
The authors are all among the leading scholars in the field for their respective languages (Stefan Georg for Ket, Elena Maslova for Yukaghir, Ekaterina Gruzdeva for Nivkh, etc.) and they are generally on very specific themes. Even if some of the contributors here support reconstructing an Altaic language family, there is none of the wild proliferation of revolutionary new explanations that distinguishes Kortlandt's own work.
I found this volume especially helpful for Georg's chapter on Yeniseic, which is a friendly introduction to these mysterious languages for people with experience only in the Samoyedic and Turkic languages spoken around them.
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