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THE LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS OF WESTERN ASIA G...

The languages of Western Asia belong to a variety of language families  including Indo-European
Kartvelian  Semitic  and Turkic  but share numerous features on account of being in areal
contact over many centuries. This volume presents descriptions of the modern languages 
contributed by leading specialists  and evaluates similarities across the languages that may
have arisen by areal contact. It begins with an introductory chapter presenting an overview of
the various genetic groupings in the region and summarizing some of the significant features
and issues relating to language contact. In the core of the volume the presentation of the
languages is divided into five contact areas  which include (i) eastern Anatolia and
northwestern Iran  (ii) northern Iraq  (iii) western Iran  (iv) the Caspian region and south
Azerbaijan  and (v) the Caucasian rim and southern Black Sea coast. Each section contains
chapters devoted to the languages of the area preceded by an introductory section that
highlights significant contact phenomena. The volume is rounded off by an appendix with basic
lexical items across a selection of the languages. The handbook features contributions by Erik
Anonby  Denise Bailey  Christiane Bulut  David Erschler  Geoffrey Haig  Geoffrey Khan  Rene
Lacroix  Parvin Mahmoudveysi  Hrach Martirosyan  Ludwig Paul  Stephan Procházka  Laurentia
Schreiber  Don Stilo  Mortaza Taheri-Ardali  Christina van der Wal Anonby.

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