#smrgKİTABEVİ Language Documentation in Comparative Turkic Linguistics - 2024
Sumru A. Özsoy
This is a welcome book on documentation in the Turkic language family. It advocates for standardization of text representations and descriptions based on the scholarly tradition in Turkic linguistics. The previously unpublished texts vary considerably in style, gender, and register. The accompanying audio recordings are accessible online, which is something quite new in linguistic publications. Different branches of Turkic are represented in the volume, e.g. endangered languages such as Southwest Karaim, Bayat Turkic in Iraq, Golan Turkic in Syria, and Yellow Uyghur in China, all with a very weak status. This type of new data from field work is essential both for historical linguistics and for the description of the Turkic language type.
Lars Johanson
This very interesting volume presents new materials and analysis of 13 Turkic languages, most of which are endangered, ranging from Western Europe to China. It will contribute to Turkic synchronic and diachronic studies, and be a nice source for language typology, and historical and theoretical linguistics. The use of a uniform transcription and morphological representation in all chapters makes them more readily comparable and easier to use. The availability of downloadable sound files for the analysed texts is a plus. The editors are to be congratulated for putting together such a diverse and useful collection.
Peter Austin
Sumru A. Özsoy
This is a welcome book on documentation in the Turkic language family. It advocates for standardization of text representations and descriptions based on the scholarly tradition in Turkic linguistics. The previously unpublished texts vary considerably in style, gender, and register. The accompanying audio recordings are accessible online, which is something quite new in linguistic publications. Different branches of Turkic are represented in the volume, e.g. endangered languages such as Southwest Karaim, Bayat Turkic in Iraq, Golan Turkic in Syria, and Yellow Uyghur in China, all with a very weak status. This type of new data from field work is essential both for historical linguistics and for the description of the Turkic language type.
Lars Johanson
This very interesting volume presents new materials and analysis of 13 Turkic languages, most of which are endangered, ranging from Western Europe to China. It will contribute to Turkic synchronic and diachronic studies, and be a nice source for language typology, and historical and theoretical linguistics. The use of a uniform transcription and morphological representation in all chapters makes them more readily comparable and easier to use. The availability of downloadable sound files for the analysed texts is a plus. The editors are to be congratulated for putting together such a diverse and useful collection.
Peter Austin
