Hendrik Boeschoten

Semih Tezcan

Dede Korkut Oğuznameleri

Martin van Bruinessen

Publishes scholarly editions of portions of the Seyahatname, with English translation and commentary.

The Relevant Section of the Seyahatname. Edited with Translation, Commentary and Introduction

Evliya Çelebi in Diyarbekir

Ludo Th Verhoeven

Proceedings of the Third Conference on Turkish Linguistics

Studies on Modern Turkish

Lars Johanson

The volume contains contributions on contact-induced language change in situations in which one of the languages is a Turkic one. Most papers deal with cases of long-standing language contact. The geographic areas covered include the Balkans (Macedonian Turkish, Gagauz), Western Europe (Turkish-German, Turkish-Dutch contacts), Central Europe (Karaim), Turkey (Turkish-Kurdish, Turkish-Greek contacts, Old Ottoman Turkish), Iran (Turkic-Iranian contacts) and Siberia (Yakut-Tungusic contacts). The contributions focus on various phenomena of code interaction and on various types of structural changes in different contact settings. Several authors employ the Code Copying Model, which is presented in some detail in one of the articles.

Turkic Languages in Contact

Ludo Verhoeven

The book offers a discussion of current research interests in the field of Turkish linguistics. Aspects of linguistic theory are addressed in chapters on phonology, syntax and semantics. The study of language use is represented by chapters on the acquisition of Turkish and on language variation.

Turkish Linguistics Today

zeitgenössische Literatur mit Lexik und Grammatik

Türkisches Lesebuch

In A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic Hendrik Boeschoten describes the lexical material contained in works written in different varieties of Eastern Turkic before the classical age of Chaghatay.

A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic

Julian Rentzsch

This volume contains contributions in English and German on various topics of linguistic turcology. All contributors are in some way associated with the turcological department in Mainz. The articles cover a broad specter of linguistic fields such as syntax, phonology, morphophonology, semantics, pragmatics, lexicon, onomasitcs, socio-linguistics and language contact. All major branches of the Turkic languages are covered, with the focus of the individual contributions either on a single language or on several languages from a comparative perspective. Both synchronic and diachronic issues are addressed. There are contributions with either a descriptive or a theoretical bias.

Turcology in Mainz

The book contains an edition of a collection of six stories about Alexander Dhulqarnain found in a manuscript kept in St. Petersburg, together with a translation, analyses of the language and the literary content, and indices. The stories must have been written in some variety of Western Oghuz Turkic in Iran, but the manuscript itself is a rather late copy, produced in a Kipchak-Chaghatay environment (presumably Kazan). The content of the stories are of the adventurous kind, and betray a background of more or less popular performances by storytellers. One striking feature is the interest taken in mechanical contraptions, such as automata for the purpose of the defence of castles.

Alexander Stories in Ajami Turkic

Heidi Stein

Der Tagungsband der 5. Deutschen Turkologenkonferenz bietet einen reprasentativen Querschnitt gegenwartiger turkologischer Forschung. Den Schwerpunkt der 34 Aufsatze bilden Diskussionen philologischer, linguistischer und literaturwissenschaftlicher Probleme der Turksprachen, die durch Beitrage zu historischen und zeitgeschichtlichen Themen erganzt werden. Gemass der "gesamtturkologischen" Auffassung des Faches werden nicht nur das Turkeiturkische bzw. Osmanische und die Turkei behandelt, sondern es wird den noch wenig erforschten kleineren Turksprachen und -volkern besondere Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet. Die Themenvielfalt reicht von alteren Sprachstufen ("Turkic personal names in Middle Mongol sources", "Mittelbulgarische Dialekte", "Satirische Gedichte des osmanischen Dichters Kesfi)uber das moderne Turkisch ("Genitiv im Turkischen") und seine Randvarietaten ("Sprachkontakt in Nordzypern?") bis zu entfernteren Turksprachen wie dem Nogaischen im Nordkaukasus ("Postverbiale Konverbien im Nogaischen") oder dem in China gesprochenen Salarisch und Eynu. Die literarischen Untersuchungen befassen sich mit der turkischen Postmoderne ("Elif Safaks Roman Bit Palas") wie auch mit der Volksdichtung anderer Turkvolker ("Wiegenlieder im Usbekischen und Kirgisischen"). Neueste Untersuchungen zu aktuellen ideologischen Stromungen in der Turkei ("Gibt es einen turkischen Islam?", "Turkische Kulturpolitik im Internet") und in Aserbaidschan und zur Situation der Wolgatataren vervollstandigen das Bild.

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