The notion of cultural aspects of language variation and change is a growing field. However, collective works on the current stance within this domain are still scarce. The Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures embraces a substantial part of the Eurasian continent and equips the reader to better observe, reconstruct and understand the impact of culture and cultural changes on language diversity and linguistic developments. Along the way, a fascinating range of interdisciplinary issues, from database encoding conventions to etymologies and cultural anthropology, are discussed.
Based on an extensive database assembled by Gerd Carling and her team in Lund, Sweden, the atlas presents typological and lexical data of more than 200 ancient and modern languages, many encoded for the very first time. Alongside classic maps, the atlas features new visualizations, such as polygons and network diagrams, which smartly illustrate complex linguistic patterns of borrowability, co-lexification and semantic evolution and thereby provide entirely new perspectives.
In collaboration with Acherdan Abregov, Elnur Aliyev, Leila Avidzba, Chundra Cathcart, Merab Chukhua, Sandra Cronhamn, Robert Farren, Johan Frid, Anne Goergens, Josine Greidanus, Teimuraz Gvantseladze, Harald Hammarström, Arthur Holmer, Niklas Johansson, Madzhid Khalilov, Edin Kuckovic, Filip Larsson, Tamar Lomadze, Mikael Novén, Ante Petrović, Erich Round, Revaz Tchantouria, Maka Tetradze, Larisa Tuptsokova, Karina Vamling, Briana Van Epps, Rob Verhoeven, Ola Wikander, Astrid Zimmermann.
Author(s): Gerd Carling
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 760
Preface
Contributors
Funding and support
Abbreviations
Orthographic conventions for Caucasian languages
Overview of conventions
Overview of tables
Overview of figures
Overview of maps
Overview of appendices
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical backdrop: words, things, and humans in their environment
3. Language: classification, reconstruction, and principles of change
4. Description of the database Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics
5. Atlas: Grammar
6. Atlas: Lexicon
7. Concluding chapter: an integrated view of the linguistic and cultural histories of Eurasia
Literature
Appendix 1: Languages of the current atlas
Appendix 2a: Grammar: Features, complete list (from DiACL)
Appendix 2b: Grammar: State combinations
Appendix 2c: Grammar: State combinations in languages
Appendix 2d: Grammar: Solutions 1–10 by Structure
Appendix 3a: Lexicon: list of concepts, coverage by family
Appendix 3b: Lexical data
Appendix 3c: Lexical data: statistics
Appendix 3d: Lexicon: Source language data, flow map
Appendix 4a: Language consultants
Appendix 4b: Literary sources
Appendix 4c: Geographical sources
Map Credits
Index
